NNPA NEWSWIRE — No Florida Governor in modern times has ever proposed a congressional map. Annette Taddeo considers letting the executive branch take over the process...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In today’s environment, too many thought leaders are making conversations about voting rights academic, but the motivation for restricting voting is simple. Republicans...
SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — Dr. Warren interviewed the Councilmember on the upcoming changes coming to his district, including the building of affordable housing, the...
SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — This inclusion of the people carries with it “public comment” which is the opportunity for the people to comment on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Yes, your vote does matter. Those opposing the Governor are counting on Democrats, mostly people of color in California, not returning their ballots...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Short of some hail-Mary, Democrats are sure to lose their slim House majority, and Republicans conceivably could stake claim to congressional leadership for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lowery’s enduring legacy, I believe, is that he led the SCLC back from near death, to vibrancy and noteworthy relevance, after taking over...
TALLAHASSEE (Politico) — In a private gathering during last month’s Republican Party of Florida quarterly meeting, state Rep. Janet Adkins told a group of North Florida...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After the Florida Republican-dominated state legislature failed to redraw Rep. Corrine Brown’s congressional district and seven others...
Martha Waggoner, ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. William Barber walks gingerly with a cane, in a hunched-over posture, yet here he is...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups hoping to squeeze partisan politics out of how states shape congressional districts are hailing a Supreme Court decision...
Samantha Lachman, HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that a voter-approved independent redistricting commission in Arizona is constitutional....
Larry O’Dell and Alan Suderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal court on Friday concluded for the second time that Virginia’s congressional boundaries...
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia legislators packed too many black voters into one congressional district in order to make adjacent districts safer...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state Senate since 2002, when 72% of its voting-age...
(The Washington Post) – Last week I wrote about the most gerrymandered congressional districts in the United States, as measured by how geometrically compact they are....
