The request says because of the preexisting ballot access issues Native Americans experience on reservations, the law ...

Four Montana tribal nations and a tribal advocacy group filed as intervenors in a lawsuit against SB 490, which restricts ...

It’s racism to try and enact the same laws over again,” said Fort Belknap Indian Community President Jeffrey Stiffarm.

Some Jews were abolitionists. Some were slaveholders. The complicated relationship between Jews and African Americans goes ...

Sally Roesch Wagner, a leading scholar of women’s history who founded the Matilda Joslyn Gage Museum & Center for Social ...

In 1971 “We the People” again expanded, to include younger people, with the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The ongoing Vietnam War shifted public opinion, and there was popular support for ...

The fight over African American suffrage continued for decades, ... Native Americans were not legally recognized with voting rights until Congress approved the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924.

During a press luncheon sponsored by the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute for Government on Monday, May 12, Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson told reporters the state ...

Native American advocates worry election reforms in front of the Utah Legislature would continue a legacy of discrimination. Ending vote by mail will take that right away, advocates say.

As an effort to protect Native people’s suffrage, Native activists have created provisions for the Native American Voting Rights Act which has been spelled out in the John R. Lewis Voting Rights ...