voting rights
More rehabilitation, less incarceration: How about votes for inmates?
October 16, 2019They know better than most that while there are some truly violent people that deserve incarceration, the vast majority need a hand up, not another shackle of more debt, a bad record, a bleaker future.
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History maker: Native Americans to host first presidential candidate forum
August 19, 2019Typically, the political issues affecting Native Americans are rarely, if ever, discussed on the presidential campaign trail. That's about to change.
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Voting rights for prisoners and the gasp heard ’round the world
May 7, 2019Voter suppression targeting African Americans and people of color is exclusively a Republican agenda, right? Not so fast.
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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.
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African-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.
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