CLYBURN’S ENDORSEMENT OF BIDEN DEMONSTRATES POWER OF BLACK VOTE
Clyburn’s endorsement, and the response of Black voters, has put Biden on what appears to be an inevitable path to the Democratic nomination. Photo: Facebook South Carolina's Rep.…
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ACLU PRAISES NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MURPHY’S SIGNING OF VOTING RIGHTS BILL FOR PEOPLE ON PROBATION AND PAROLE
ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha:"People who have been disenfranchised in every sense of the word have regained their most fundamental power in a democracy, thanks to Gov. Murphy’s…
STACEY ABRAMS ENLISTS SUPPORT OF JOURNALIST GREG PALAST IN FEDERAL VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWSUIT
Stacey Abrams’ non-profit Fair Fight has retained the Palast Investigations team experts to provide court testimony, based on our six years of investigation, in Fair Fight’s federal lawsuit…
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS CELEBRATES FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS THE “CONSCIENCE OF THE CONGRESS”
"Just four days after the assassination of Dr. King, Congressman Conyers introduced a bill to create a federal holiday in his honor and reintroduced the bill every year…
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: "I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with…
NEW VOTING RIGHTS AND INTEGRITY COALITION “SEAN” LAUNCHES TODAY
Newly launched voter modernization advocacy group Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) pledges to fight to "ensure election integrity." Photo: Facebook Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) has…
Rev. Barber At The Schomburg Nov. 1 — Conversations in Black Freedom Studies
Rev. William Barber. Photo Flickr--By Josh Rushing The Struggle for Voting Rights & the Poor People’s Campaign Thursday, November 1, 2018, 6:30 p.m. In 1968 Martin Luther and…
100th Anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Birth — Keep Fighting for Voting Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer testifying at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City in 1964. Photo--Wikipedia Fannie Lou Hamer once said: “You can pray until you faint, but unless…
GOP on Full Circle
On Inauguration Day in January of 2009, a group of influential, establishment Republican leaders met for dinner at an exclusive Washington, D.C. restaurant to figure out how to…
Introducing Loretta Lynch: United States Attorney General
Loretta Lynch -- ready for the job Loretta E. Lynch, 55, has made history. She is to soon officially become the 83rd U.S. Attorney General. Lynch knew she…