Gerrymandering is one of the most entrenched obstacles to fair and representative democracy in the United States. To fight its spread, experts analyze proposed voting district maps and provide testimony in legal challenges. They identify places with diverse populations where councils or legislatures create at-large districts, pack voters of one ethnic group into a single…

Voting district lines equal political power. This is why communities redistricted after the 2020 U.S. census results were released, creating new district maps to reflect demographic changes. But five years after the census, the city of Abbeville, Louisiana, is still on its first attempt at drawing new districts. As an attorney for voting rights with…

Seventy years ago, a coalition of young lawyers, activists, preachers and Americans of conscience joined together for a monumental fight: to secure the right to vote and dismantle segregation across the Jim Crow South. Ten years later, the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which celebrates its 60th anniversary today, transformed Black voter participation.…