The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which barred states from considering a voter's sex in determining eligibility, is commonly credited with expanding the right to vote to women, but the amendment ...

This past summer my partner, Joan, and I walked up a small Adirondack peak, Goodman Mountain. A decade ago, the mountain was renamed for slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, who, together with ...

This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysis. When the president and congressional ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the state’s Supreme Court. But that win may be short-lived. In the coming months, ...