voting rights
Rampant voter suppression underway, with Black voters the chief target
October 12, 2018GOP nominee for Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, is also Secretary of State. His office has frozen 53,000 voter registrations - mostly African Americans.
Read moreSupreme Court punts on Wisconsin gerrymandering case
June 19, 2018Supreme Court dodges the issue of whether partisan gerrymandering violates voters’ constitutional rights.
Read moreSupreme Court blows another hole in voting rights
June 11, 2018Contrary to what Samuel Alito might thing, the streets of Ohio’s cities are not filled with moving vans.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
October 6, 2017On this day 100 years ago, October 6, 1917, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Miss.
Read moreThousands at People’s Summit plan beyond resistance to Trump
June 10, 2017The wealth gap and control of the U.S. economy by a small group of home-grown oligarchs is seen here as a major threat to democracy.
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