NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the past five years, 15 states and the District of Columbia have adopted automatic voter registration (AVR). Three states — Connecticut, Utah,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU, the Texas Civil Rights Project, Demos, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — 50 year serves as a great opportunity to look back and see how far race in America has come and according to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Ms. Rosanell Eaton was the 97-year-old matriarch in our four-year successful court fight against voter suppression, from 2013 to 2016,” Rev. Dr. William...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent forum on the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2016 The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) is thrilled to embark on a new community engagement partnership with Airbnb...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Election day November 8, 2016 will be the first Presidential election in 50 years without the full...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the 2016 election cycle ramps up, Essence magazine and the Black Women’s Roundtable have teamed up to mobilize...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we enter the 2016 political campaign season with numerous candidates for president of the United States in...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Two pivotal court cases in North Carolina will determine the balance of political power in the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Some of the protections that had been enshrined in the Voting Rights Act itself have been weakened as a...
(New York Times) – On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Marking the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, President Barack Obama remembered the African-American men and women across...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (The Washington Post) — “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in 2013, when the Supreme Court freed Southern states...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In less than a week, a voting rights trial is expected to begin that will challenge North...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme Court Justice...
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Legislation that would retool and restore the Voting Rights Act was introduced in Congress...
by John Zippert Special to the NNPA from the Greene County Democrat The Shelby County Chapter of the NAACP with support from the statewide organization and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s not too soon to ask a critical question of citizens of voting age who tend to vote...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nearly two years ago in...
JASON KEYSER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of activists,...
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of marchers set out across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge Monday with plans to walk to the Alabama...
