voting rights
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.
Read moreVoting 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.
Read moreVoting 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."
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