Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...

Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

North Carolina's most powerful senator expressed interest on Tuesday in deleting a voter literacy test provision from the state constitution — a relic from the Jim Crow era that while unenforceable ...

The state’s top senator said Tuesday that a literacy test for voters “ought to be out of our constitution” and he’s ready to remove it. It’s not the first time that state lawmakers have wanted to ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...