North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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

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 — ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors often assume they're explaining things in a way patients understand. When patients are confused, doctors don't always realize it. A new study shows patients might ...

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 ...

After overhauling literacy policy in 2013, Mississippi went from 49th to a top 10 state in fourth-grade reading. It’s been dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” but those involved say it was more of a ...