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...
NILES, Ohio (New York Times) — Just weeks before elections that will decide control of the Senate and crucial governors’ races, a cascade of court rulings...
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Despite major advances to access to the ballot box nearly 50 years after the passage of Voting...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
By Joe Madison NNPA Guest Columnist There was a lot of talk around the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington last week that Dr. Martin...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist If you’re looking for the justice on the Supreme Court who mirrors Thurgood Marshall’s tenure on the bench, it is...
By Sherrilyn A. Ifill NNPA Guest Columnist The Voting Rights Act has been described as the “crown jewel” of civil rights legislation. Its passage was secured...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s no coincidence that in the next few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I risked my life defending that right. If we are ever to actualize the true meaning of equality, effective measures such...
Gary Bledsoe NNPA Guest Columnist Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist The two of us sat in utter shock and disbelief as an...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...
