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...
SELMA, ALABAMA (VOA News) – Thousands of people will gather to mark the 50th anniversary of a historic civil rights march on March 7th in the...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Imagine being a young teenager and deciding to participate in a serious march...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Blacks have made tremendous improvement in holding elected office since passage of the 1965 Voting...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Washington lawmakers, local officials and activists prepare to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he sparked controversy on Jan. 14...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by earmarking $50 million to...
(The Washington Post) – “Selma” delivers a powerful dramatization of the bloody civil rights march in Alabama that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The depiction has received an Oscar nomination...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Doar, a top Justice Department civil rights lawyer in the 1960s who was at the center of key...
