by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Black voters who turned out to elect President Joe Biden were hoping for some real change. We’re getting it.
Kristen Clarke is one...
Pandemic Relief and the Georgia Elections
By Ben Jealous
Fair warning: this isn’t a traditional Christmas-week column.
If we think of clarity as a kind of gift,...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Millions of Americans have turned out in big cities and small towns to protest the killings of unarmed civilians—often Black people—at the...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Republicans’ rush to fill the vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat before the election is a terrible threat to Black people’s civil rights...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an intellectual giant with a righteous spirit. She used her brilliant mind and steely determination to...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The post office is one of the most respected institutions in America, a lifeline for millions of Americans, and a source of...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—The post office is one of the most respected institutions in America, a lifeline for millions of Americans, and a source of...
by Ben Jealous
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—One of the most exciting parts of this year’s Democratic National Convention for me was the keynote speech delivered collectively by a...
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., accompanied by fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus express disappointment in the Supreme Court's decision on Shelby County v. Holder that invalidates Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, June 25, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's, recalled being attacked and beaten trying to help people in Mississippi to register and vote in the 1960's. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) by Bill Barrow ATLANTA (AP) — Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination.
