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 ...

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 ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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

Why aren’t liberals more outraged by the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency? After all, the administration’s white paper outlining what the agency should do contains some eyebrow-raising ...

Two years ago, local politicians, business executives, educators and nonprofit organizations banded together in an unprecedented push to improve literacy among San Antonio children. The goal: Make ...

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 ...

The call came at 7 a.m.. A global media and entertainment powerhouse — one of my clients that is also one of the most recognized companies in the world — had just compressed a core business process ...