redistricting

Where did the behind-closed-doors racist garbage from some leading Los Angeles elected officials come from?

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.

Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.

Their plan required not only a social and legal division along racial lines but a political one, too — a separation that persists today.

“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.

The Trump administration tried and failed to accomplish a count of unauthorized immigrants to reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

The word is two centuries old.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?

A far right politics that developed in the middle of the 20th century has prevented Democrats from gaining as they have in suburbs elsewhere.