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Mississippi legislators won’t smooth the path this year to restore voting rights after some felonies
theGrio via AOL· 2 weeks agoMississippi’s original list of disenfranchising crimes springs from the Jim Crow era JACKSON, Miss....
Editorial: Mississippi has heroes who fought for democracy. Why is it marking Confederate Heritage...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe right to vote was on the books yet out of reach for millions of Americans until at least 1964,...
Ineligible Mansfield school board candidate rips opponent, looks toward special election
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 1 week agoCrutchfield worked at the University of Mississippi before joining UTA in 2018. Asked why people...
Opinion | Why Fannie Lou Hamer Sick and Tired
Mississippi Free Press· 3 days agoAt a rally with Malcolm X in Harlem, N.Y., on Dec. 20, 1964, Hamer described the brutal beatings she and other Black people endured in Mississippi in...
GOP secretaries of state, legislators fight against ‘Bidenbucks,’ federalization of GOTV efforts
Just the News· 1 week agoRepublican secretaries of state and state legislators are pushing back against “Bidenbucks,” what...
The Rep’s ‘Three Mothers’ promising but overwrought, overwritten
Albany Times Union· 3 days agoA photograph of the women leaving the funeral of one of their sons inspired Bronx playwright Ajene...
Why Alabama might ban ranked choice voting
Birmingham News· 2 weeks ago“Everyone said, ‘what the hell is ranked choice voting?’” Saxman, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002-2010. Indeed, the...
'Freedom to Learn' protesters push back on book bans, restrictions on Black history
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSixty years ago, during the initial Freedom Summer, hundreds of mostly college students joined local...
REVIEW: At theRep, 'Three Women' is longer on ideas and speechmaking, than it is on drama and...
Berkshire Eagle· 13 hours agoThe three mothers in playwright Ajene D. Washington’s well-intentioned, if dramatically...
Will Minnesota be a swing state during the November election?
MinnPost· 1 week agoRecent polls and other indicators are prompting rising speculation that President Joe Biden may not...