On Aug. 6, 2025, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, while recognizing we must not only preserve the ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

ANXIOUS ANNIVERSARY — The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

A lawsuit filed by the Virginia NAACP against Gov. Glenn Youngkin for an alleged failure to produce records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has recently been ordered to a lower ...

Leaders and researchers look back at Watts since the 1965 riots and answer the question: Is it better now than back then?

Sixty years after the Watts Riots (sometimes referred to as Watts Uprising or Watts Rebellion), young people like Hernandez ...

Last weekend, outnumbered Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, powerless to stop another self-serving ...

My heart was full at the recent ceremony announcing the first recipients of the Williamsburg Descendant Scholarship program.

At dinner last weekend a friend asked me to reflect on this birthday and almost 50 years in Northampton. Which I’ve done. In ...

By Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Guest Columnist. Sixty years ago, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a Joint Session of Congress said, “At times history and fa ...