A lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleges DeSoto's current district map violates Black voters' rights. Here's what we know.

A new lawsuit alleges that Black voters are being discriminated against by voting maps in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

The lawsuit seeks the creation of one Black-majority supervisor districts out of five in DeSoto County. But pundits ...

T he 114 District, like all North Carolina state legislative districts, has been redrawn by Republican legislators. The ...

Carrying both wins and losses over the years, the battles fought by the state’s Black voters continue. Recently, a panel of federal judges ruled the Mississippi Legislature must draw new maps next ...

Thalia Mara Hall was built in the center of the downtown arts and cultural district in Jackson in 1968. It was called the ...

Crews last week exhumed his body and took DNA samples they will compare with others in a national database that did not exist ...

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case has failed to disclose multiple speaking appearances.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. -- On opposite sides of the courthouse square in Tuskegee, Alabama — a place steeped in African American ...

The right to abortion care is protected by state law, according to the state of Alaska Department of Law website. Arizona is ...

Michigan has fallen even further into the bottom half for best states to work in, ranked in 31st place by Oxfam, a global ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...