Voter Suppression
Voting Rights: Gutting Section 2 Would Allow Unchecked Racial Discrimination
Photos: Twitter (Washington, D.C.) - A federal appeals court should reverse a district judge’s ruling that held Black voters and other impacted community members ...
Supreme Court’s Assault On Voting Rights Hits New Low
Photos: Supreme Court\YouTube Even for experts who closely follow the US supreme court, there was something stunning about an emergency decision, on voting rights, ...
Alabama Secretary of State Being Sued By Greater Birmingham Ministries
Photo: Twitter Birmingham, Alabama – Today, civil rights organization Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...
Congressional Black Caucus Urging DOJ To Aggressively Increase Efforts To Protect Voting Rights
Photo: Twitter WASHINGTON – Tuesday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (SC-06) and Congressman Mondaire Jones (NY-17) led over 40 ...
Activists Push Thousands To Call White House To Pass Federal Voting Rights Legislation
Photos: Twitter\Facebook WASHINGTON, DC – Today, voting rights groups announced a major expanded effort to drive thousands of calls daily to the White House ...
Legal Challenge To Georgia’s Voter Suppression Law Given Green Light To Proceed
Photo: Twitter ATLANTA – Georgia Governor Brian Kemp shown above signing voter suppression bill S.B. 202. Thursday, a federal court denied the three motions ...
Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock Discusses “Sacred’ Voting Rights
Photo: Twitter WASHINGTON (RNS) — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, both Democrats and one an ordained minister, made the religious ...
Voting Rights Lawsuit Seeks To Overturn Texas’ New Congressional Districts
Photo: NDRC An organization affiliated with Eric Holder, who was attorney general in the Obama administration, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn ...
Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois Redistricting Plan For Undermining Power Of Black Vote
Photos: Zinn Education Project\ACLU CHICAGO — The Illinois legislature’s S.B. 927 redistricting plan, creates unconstitutional racially gerrymandered districts for the Illinois House of Representatives, ...