Voters on Election Day

5 Modern-Day Voting Rights Heroes Everyone Should Know

Here are five modern-day voting rights heroes everyone should know.
03.31.20
Prisoner Hands Grasp Bars

Jersey Law Has Major Implications For Felons Voting

According to a Sentencing Project study, the Garden State has a lot of Black people locked up. A new law…
03.31.20
Republican Candidate For Governor Brian Kemp Attends Election Night Event In Athens, Georgia

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Probed For Voter Suppression

Democrats are coming after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp after he used nearly every trick in the Jim Crow voter suppression…
03.28.20
Mexico Beach, Florida After Hurricane Michael

After Hurricane Florida To Protect White Voting Rights

The heavily white Republican voter population affected by the storm has the governor on their side.
10.17.18
Nation Goes To The Polls In Contentious Presidential Election Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump

Official Asks Inappropiate Question To Former Felon Voting

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis clearly crossed the line with his racist question.
07.07.18
Neil Gorsuch Is Sworn In As Associate Justice To Supreme Court

How Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS Are Harming Minority Voters

Thomas, once again, sides with the high court's conservative judges.
06.25.18
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Florida's Black Voters Could Shift National Power

Voters could lead the way in restoring voting rights to scores of disenfranchised ex-offenders.
06.19.18
Early Voting Begins In Utah

Lawsuit Calls North Carolina Law Racist

Lawyers filed legal documents that asked a North Carolina court to drop charges against five former felons accused of illegally…
06.10.18
Civil Rights Activists March On Washington To Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr

A Call To Defend Civil Rights

The Rev. Al Sharpton led a battle cry at the National Action Network convention to defend civil rights.
04.19.18
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GOP Trying It With 'Suppression Sunday' Voting Bill

This is Suppression Sunday.
03.19.18
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Chicago Inmates Vote In Historic First For Jail

Inmates in Cook County Jail participated in the first jail-wide, in-person voting session on Saturday.
03.12.18
Polling Machines Are Prepared For Tuesday's Presidential Election

Florida Felons Could Soon Have Voting Rights Restored

A federal judge handed down a ruling that harshly criticized the state.
02.02.18
Nation Goes To The Polls In Contentious Presidential Election Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump

Proposed Bill Would Ban Felons From Running For…

Two New York City lawmakers introduced a bill that would block felons from seeking elected office.
02.01.18
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Will Florida Restore Voting Rights To Felons?

Voting rights campaigners gathered enough signatures for a ballot initiative that would restore voting rights to 1.5 million felons.
01.23.18
Early voting for president, voter fraud signs.

Trump Voter Fraud Commission Dismantled

President Donald Trump dissolved his voter fraud commission in the face of several lawsuits and widespread criticism.
01.04.18
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Scores Of Ex-Felons Helped Sweep Doug Jones To…

Thousands of Black ex-felons were among the massive African-American voter turnout in Alabama that swept Doug Jones into the U.S.…
12.14.17
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Court: Black Voters Discriminated Against In North Carolina

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Republican lawmakers violated the Constitution by packing Black voters into a few congressional…
05.22.17
Mississippi Ranked As Poorest State In U.S.

Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign To Tackle Racism,…

The Rev. William J. Barber discusses his efforts to revive the Poor People's Campaign with Roland Martin on NewsOne Now
04.05.18
Protestors Read Coretta Scott King Letter Outside Mitch McConnell's Home

Black Leaders Have Blunt Discussion With Attorney General

Civil rights leaders met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss their concerns about the DOJ's direction.
03.08.17
We Stand United NYC Rally

NAACP Presses Jeff Sessions About Civil Rights

NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and General Counsel Brad Berry met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions Friday about the Justice…
03.03.17
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