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To Be Equal: Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Acts

 by Marc H. Morial  (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“As long as some among us are oppressed--and we are part of that oppression--it must blunt our faith and sap the strength...

Knowing when to call it quits takes courage and confidence

A man reads the Chicago Tribune announcing President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to run for reelection in 1968. Corbis/Getty Images by Kevin J. McMahon,...

Guest Editorial: And so it goes!

U.S. Supreme Court Credit: Image by Mark Thomas from Pixabay The Amsterdam News We are not surprised, nor should you be upon learning on Thursday that...

Voting in unconstitutional districts: US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing...

Overturning decades of tradition, the Supreme Court in 2022 let Alabama use voting districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of...

An independent commission is racing to redraw Detroit’s voting maps under a federal court order − but the change may not elect more Black candidates

Volunteers at the 14th District Democratic headquarters for the midterm election in Detroit, Mich., on Nov 8, 2022. The 14th District map must now...

Exclusive: VP Kamala Harris takes aim at attacks on voting rights during visit to Atlanta

Georgia will play a major role in the 2024 Presidential Election. To shed light on the importance of maintaining voter rights, Vice President Kamala...

Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

by Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government –...

Alabama’s defiant new voting map rejected by federal court — after Republicans ignored the Supreme Court’s directive to add a second majority-Black House district

Evan Milligan, plaintiff in an Alabama case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the U.S., speaks outside the U.S. Supreme...

Supreme Court says state lawmakers can’t just ignore state law when drawing voting districts or choosing presidential electors

  North Carolina’s election districts have been under debate and review for years. AP Photo/Gerry Broome by Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond For months, legislators, legal...

Voter intimidation in 2022 follows a long history of illegal, and racist, bullying

by Atiba Ellis, Marquette University In Travis County, Texas, home to Austin, a local Republican Party official allegedly knocked on people’s doors in November 2022...

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