voting rights
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Exclusive: Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, Beloved Voting-Rights Organizer, Speaks Out About Capital Murder Charges He Faces in Alabama: ‘I Am Innocent’
The Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, 52, national president and founder of the Ordinary People Society, or TOPS, and a renowned voting-rights organizer and veteran criminal-justice and drug-policy-reform activist, is currently facing capital murder charges in Dothan, Ala., for allegedly being complicit in the shooting death of Bruenia Jennings, 23. On March 25, authorities say, Glasgow, the…
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Trump’s Top Pick to Head Census Is Pro-Gerrymandering Professor Who Thinks Black People Are Overcounted
Voting and immigration-rights advocates are alarmed over Donald Trump’s leading pick to head the U.S. Census Bureau: a conservative college professor with no government experience who literally wrote a book expounding on the dangers of competitive elections. According to Politico, Trump wants to tap Thomas Brunell, a political science professor at the University of Texas…
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Former Felons Voted in Tuesday’s Elections and Republicans Are Big Mad
If you noticed a change in the climate at the polls, specifically in the atmospheric pressure due to moisture in the air, it might be because of the meteorological phenomenon known to research scientists as Blubberus caucasianus, more commonly referred to as “white tears.” Lost in the hullabaloo surrounding Democratic victories around the country on…
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It’s Time to Revive the Heart of the Voting Rights Act
Fifty-three years ago today, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Mississippi, where they had gathered to register black voters as part of Freedom Summer. Their murders, and the brutal treatment of voting rights marchers in Selma, Ala., less than a year later, galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965—one…
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Add This to the List: The Dangers of Canvassing While Black in Ga.’s 6th District
“May I speak with Corbin, please?’ I said in my best “Not your neighborhood” smile. A middle-aged white woman came to the door, dressed in a salmon-colored workout top and pants. She had the confused look of a woman used to leaving her front door open and nobody knocking. “There’s no Corbin here,” she said.…
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Ala. Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Felony Convictions
In a move that’s sure to get people’s underwear in a bunch among those who are already against granting people the right to vote, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill restoring thousands of Alabama felons’ right to vote. Voting rights were granted to some felons after the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act was…
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This Secret Form of Voter Suppression Might Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
When federal judge Nelva Gonzales struck down Texas’ discriminatory voter-identification law on Monday, voting rights advocates applauded the ruling as if the minorities barred from casting ballots had won the Super Bowl. Amy Rudd, the attorney who represented the NAACP Texas State Conference and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, said, “We hope today’s decision sends…
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This Video of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis ‘Turnt Up’ Is Everything
Remember John Lewis? Remember how our pear-shaped, pumpkin-colored president got butt-hurt when the civil rights hero said he didn’t see Donald Trump as a “legitimate president”? Remember how Receding-Hairline Hitler jumped on Twitter and tweeted: This weekend, while Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida meeting with his “alt-right” all-star team that included Jeff…
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Jeff Sessions Is the New Jim Crow
Perhaps the worst thing about America’s mistreatment of black people in this country has nothing to do with the violence inflicted against us or the centuries of historic subjugation we’ve endured. It is the constant disregard for our voices that frustrates us most. Black America is the neighbor in the horror movie who warns the…