
By Julianne Malveaux — When the Supreme Court overturned Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, it struck a blow to voting rights. No longer did states with a history…
By Julianne Malveaux — When the Supreme Court overturned Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, it struck a blow to voting rights. No longer did states with a history…
By Gerren Keith Gaynor, TheGrio — Voting rights and Black America’s historical fight for equality was front and center on Sunday as Vice President Kamala Harris, White House officials, members…
“We need to do this in order to protect our rights, rights we already have, rights we shouldn’t have to still be fighting for.” By Tom Conway — E.J. Jenkins…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Black women leaders have been working on this issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom…
By April Ryan, TheGrio — Election Day is taking place in 35 states. However, the warning is clear — Democrats should “panic” if they lose the state of Virginia, says…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — When California governor Gavin Newsom woke up on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, I hope he fell to his knees and said, “Thank you, God, thank…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — With voter suppression laws taking shape in Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and just about every GOP-led state in the nation, NAACP President Derrick Johnson…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever issues Democrats, progressives, liberals, independents and others have with Gov. Gavin Newsom, they should not confuse or conflate it with the urgent and essential…
Not a single House Republican voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. By John Nichols, The Nation — “Old battles have become new again,” said US Representative Terri Sewell,…
58 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands in the historic March on Washington. This year, King’s son and other organizers will march for voting rights. By Rachel Pilgrim,…
A mass march on August 28 will call on Senate Democrats to ditch the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation. By Mike Ludwig, Truthout — The Voting Rights Act of…
Voter suppression efforts will only get worse. By Charles Blow, NYT — In the wake of the Civil War, liberals in the North went about establishing Reconstruction, passing the 13th,…