Release: Today, a federal voting rights lawsuit challenging the redistricting of Meriwether County, Georgia, was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The ...

This guide is part of a collaboration with Grist and WABE to demystify the Georgia Public Service Commission, the small but ...

Voting rights groups that challenged the law expressed concern over the ruling's impact on free speech and vowed to continue their legal fight. ATLANTA – A federal judge has upheld a portion of a ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

As Georgia wrapped up weeks of early voting on Friday for the Nov. 3 election, Black voter turnout had far surpassed the level seen at the same time in 2016.

Georgia has enacted new state House and state Senate district lines, concluding its once-in-a-decade redistricting process. The state’s new maps systematically water down the political strength of ...

The White House said a Black Georgia lawmaker's arrest is "deeply concerning." President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping new Georgia law restricting voting access, passed by the state's ...

Beau Davis, a 33-year-old security specialist from the Atlanta suburbs, is the kind of voter Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler Perdue may need to win runoff elections next month that will determine ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...