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...
Christina Marcos, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill) — Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan (Wis.) and Keith Ellison (Minn.) are urging Congress to approve a constitutional...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has passed up an early chance to review a contested North Carolina election law that opponents say limits the...
Jennifer Bendery and Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post)—When it comes to restoring the landmark Voting Rights Act, Republican lawmakers don’t seem to...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Huffington Post) — The revenue-reaping practices of the police department and municipal court in this St. Louis suburb were widely condemned this month and...
(The Root) – The voter-ID war just opened up a huge new front. This time in Tennessee. A group of nine students from HBCUs Fisk...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago I traveled from Mississippi to Selma, Ala. on March 21, 1965 to join Dr. Martin...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What could more profoundly vindicate the idea of America than plain and humble people — the unsung, the downtrodden,...
By William Barber and Gary L. Bledsoe NNPA Guest Columnists Looking at our nation and noting where we have come since 1965 gives us reason to...
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 George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After ceremonies wrap up Sunday in Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the signing of...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
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...
Florida refuses to restore full constitutional rights to ex-felons. The result? One Black Floridian of every four can’t vote, hold office or serve on a jury....
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Civil rights leaders and groups are hailing legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) and Keith Ellison...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old...
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated Texas’ tough voter ID law, which the U.S. Justice Department...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with...
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...
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...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Justice for 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was murdered by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Fla. on Nov. 23, 2012 in...
We Vote for People Instead of Voting for Issues by Shantella Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Voting has to be important...
ANN SANNER, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked an Ohio law that scales back early voting, ordering the state’s...
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...
