Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that ...

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 ...

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The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. FRISCO, Texas, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) today released updated ...

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...