The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim ... American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating ...

Despite the scant justification for U.S. criminal disenfranchisement laws, they have withstood constitutional challenge. Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right ...

The United States may have the world’s most restrictive criminal disenfranchisement laws. We know of no other democracy besides the United States in which convicted offenders who have served ...

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim ... American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating ...

The two are not unrelated. Women of color stand at the crossroads of what is in essence a double disenfranchisement. When they are denied the opportunity to participate in civic life, they also ...

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

AI is likely to be used to help us run elections in the near future but there are risks as well as reward.

Mississippi House lawmakers are again looking to address disenfranchisement of people previously convicted of nonviolent felonies, but the best path forward may require a two-thirds vote of the ...

Mississippi House lawmakers are again looking to address disenfranchisement of people previously convicted of nonviolent ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine walking in to cast a ballot for the very first time, already unsure if the process will go smoothly. And ...