voting rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965 may have to be passed again
February 19, 2019The Voting Rights Act produced an enormous change for both African-Americans and U.S. politics.
Read moreAfrican-American North Carolina voting rights activist dies
December 10, 2018Rosanell Eaton, an African-American voting rights activist who successfully helped challenge voting restrictions supported by North Carolina Republicans, has died. She was 97.
Read moreAFT’s Weingarten: “No poll that matters but Election Day.”
October 12, 2018“It now falls on each and every one of us to get out and vote. We have to take it to the streets."
Read moreRampant voter suppression underway, with Black voters the chief target
October 12, 2018GOP nominee for Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, is also Secretary of State. His office has frozen 53,000 voter registrations - mostly African Americans.
Read moreSupreme Court punts on Wisconsin gerrymandering case
June 19, 2018Supreme Court dodges the issue of whether partisan gerrymandering violates voters’ constitutional rights.
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