Voting Rights
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
February 5, 2024
By: The Conversation
How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur
January 27, 2024
By: The Conversation
Exclusive: VP Kamala Harris takes aim at attacks on voting rights during visit to Atlanta
January 12, 2024
By: A.R. Shaw, Executive Editor
Edward Blum’s crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists
December 5, 2023
By: The Conversation
Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court
November 24, 2023
By: The Conversation
Tim Scott drops out of race for White House
November 13, 2023
By: Roz Edward
To Be Equal: Lawsuit challenges Virginia Governor’s arbitrary denial of felons’ right to vote
October 31, 2023
By: Courier Newsroom
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
September 8, 2023
By: The Conversation
A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump
August 6, 2023
By: The Conversation
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts uses conflicting views of race to resolve America’s history of racial discrimination
July 29, 2023
By: The Conversation