North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and ...

Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...

The study found that more than 50% of adults in Wisconsin read below a 6 th -grade level. In a survey, 37% of participants ...