Jesse Jackson told a conservative that he would perform a same-sex marriage ceremony if someone asked him.

“Beginning with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the inclusion of blacks, Hispanics, 18-year-olds, and women, opportunities are now unlimited,” Jackson said to Human Events during last week's Democratic...

Charlotte, N.C. -- Last week, Texas Democrats sent more than 300 delegates to represent the Lone Star State at the Democratic National Convention. But Kesha Rogers, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress for Texas's 22nd District, was notably absent.

"She's not here in a lot of different ways," Gilberto Hinojosa,...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Thursday afternoon, an old lady in a wheelchair and her caregiver waited near the exit of the convention center here, delayed from their next stop by one of the week's intermittent downpours.

The woman in the wheelchair was Amelia Boynton Robinson. Five decades ago, she offered...

Charlotte, N.C. -- Fresh off her barn-burner convention speech Tuesday night, First Lady Michelle Obama made an appeal Wednesday to the varied constituent groups that make up the Democratic base, urging them to join get out the vote efforts.

"We're going to have to roll up our sleeves!"...

TAMPA, Fla. -- As the Republican National Convention drew to a close, Michael Steele, the party's former chair, said that his party needed to do a better job of outreach to communities of color, and that the rhetoric around voter ID laws was a detriment to those efforts.

The party...

The CNN camerawoman who was pelted with peanuts by attendees at the Republican National Convention said that the incident was disheartening, and that it should serve as a wake-up call to black people.

"I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all," Patricia...

TAMPA, Fla. -- One hundred forty-three -- That's the tally of black people that comedian and author Baratunde Thurston said he'd counted at the Republican National Convention as of Wednesday afternoon, since landing here earlier this week. Many of them weren't delegates or attendees, but Thurston counted them anyway.

He...

As Republicans took to the floor Tuesday to nominate Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention, Democrats warned that Romney's policies would hurt blacks while touting Obama administration initiatives aimed at blacks.

"All we hear from the other side is how we need to continue to provide tax cuts for...

John McCain has stumped for her. Paul Ryan has held fundraisers on her behalf. She's been coached on public speaking by a member of Mitt Romney's team.

When Mia Love addresses the Republican National Convention on Tuesday afternoon, it will be the coming-out party for the...

Artur Davis took the stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver to second the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for president.

The congressman from Alabama was the co-chair of Obama's campaign, and he had attended Harvard Law School with the senator from Illinois....

Several Republican state attorneys general called a key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional and asked the Supreme Court to strike it down.

The officials from Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas submitted a brief in a closely watched case arguing that the...

The Democratic National Committee has released a new video touting President Barack Obama's accomplishments and needling Artur Davis, a one-time Obama surrogate-turned-Republican, by using Davis' own words against him.

Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, was a co-chair of Obama's last presidential campaign. But earlier this year, he

The New Black Panther Party, a black nationalist fringe group, is claiming that Tampa is "under siege" by white people, Republicans and Tea Partiers.

In a rant on Black Power Radio, Michelle Williams, the group's chief of staff, said that the Republican National Convention, which is being held in the...

Take a guess as to what percentage of black voters Mitt Romney is winning this election. Now take whatever number you've got in your head and go lower.

According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, President Obama is beating his Republican opponent among black voters...

The federal government gave the go-ahead to Virginia's voter ID law, which provides for a wide range of documentation to prove identity at the polls.

Unlike stricter voter ID laws like those in Pennsylvania, Virginia's voter ID law allows more forms of identification to be used, and...

Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) gaffe about "legitimate rape" and abortion on Sunday overshadowed other comments the Senate hopeful made about state and federal involvement in elections.

When asked by Charles Jaco of Fox 2 in St. Louis about the legal fight between Texas and...

As public pressure mounts on the Jonesboro police department's investigation into the death of Chavis Carter, a 21-year-old who authorities say killed himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car last month, new evidence in the case has been released that the department says supports its...

In the wake of a judge's decision not to block Pennsylvania's controversial voter ID law, Mike Turzai, the Republican legislator who made headlines in June when he said the law would help Mitt Romney win the state in November, repeated the falsehood that the state has a history of election...

San Francisco's police department has been underreporting the number of Latinos and Asian Americans who have been arrested for more than a decade by classifying them as members of other ethnic groups, according to the San Francisco Bay Citizen.

The city's police counted many Latinos that had...

Steven Singer was getting ready to start his day Wednesday morning when he got wind of some news: a Pennsylvania judge decided not to block the state's polarizing new voter ID law.

"I was pretty sure that the courts were going to strike this down," said Singer, an...