Read more: How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism One reason the Black political leaders of Reconstruction aren’t often taught in U.S. K-12 schools is because the backlash to the Black ...

An ambitious bill focused on voting rights, which all House Democrats supported and all House Republican opposed, signals a Third Reconstruction effort aimed at vindicating the equality goals of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Looks like Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose thinks the best ‘drop box’ is a dumpster to drop the lauded League of Women Voters reputation in next to legitimate Ballot ...

An etching of Black families gathering the dead after the Colfax Massacre published in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. The Reconstruction period that followed ...

How GOP-backed voting measures could create hurdles for tens of millions of voters At least 250 new laws have been proposed in 43 states to limit mail, early in-person and Election Day voting.

"There was not secret ballot in the 1890’s when the residents of Terrebonne voted, according to Frank A. Boudreaux Sr., an 82-year-old native of Boudreaux Canal who visited the parish this ...