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Overcoming Challenges to Voting Rights
The National Law Review· 1 week agoThe Bloomberg and Proskauer communities recently came together at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York for a discussion highlighting those efforts, addressing the health of our democracy, and ...
Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part...
Fighting for voting rights, making 'good trouble' in John Lewis' name, now a partisan issue
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 week agoBut he noted that in recent elections Black voter registration rates have been higher than for white...
GOP, Trump build on immigration fears to push voting restrictions in states
The Herald Bulletin· 2 weeks agoWith polls showing unauthorized immigration as Republicans’ best issue for the fall, the GOP is...
Voting rights groups appeal ruling that directs Pa. to reject undated mail ballots
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoGroups including the NAACP want the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the issue. A...
Supreme Court’s Blow to Right to Protest Is Another Attack on Black Political Power
Capital B via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe high court on Monday virtually outlawed the right to mass protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, and...
Why Alabama might ban ranked choice voting
Birmingham News· 3 hours 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...
Drink in M Ensemble's Riveting Bourbon at the Border
Miami New Times· 6 days agoBourbon at the Border, a play recalling the Freedom Summer struggle for voting rights, is unfortunately timely in this day and age.
