Voting Rights

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin will prevent the restoration of voting rights for individuals who were convicted of non-violent crimes in the state of Kentucky by executive order.

The Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama NAACP on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Alabama, alleging that officials violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act when they enacted a strict Voter ID law.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) delivers this week’s CBC Message To America focusing on voting rights and discriminatory voter laws impeding minorities’ access to the ballot. Rep. Moore began her address by naming states in the country that are “making it harder” for Americans to vote. She said Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, and even her “own […]

Sadly, the Democrats, even with a mention of the Black Lives Matter Network, fell short. The concerns of millions of Black Americans were all but dismissed in the first debate, indicating that even the left needs a crash course on how to gain the Black vote.

Members of the Florida Republican Party conducted a secret meeting to lay out a plan to unseat Corrine Brown through redistricting.

America has lost a warrior of the Civil Rights Movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson died today in Alabama of a massive stroke.

A chilling account of how easy it was to roll back protections secured under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 inspired the president to weigh in.

#PolitickerOne checks the status of Vice President Joe Biden's Black Card as buzz about a potential presidential bid picks up steam.

NewsOne’s Politicker blog tackles some of the most important topics in politics: Election 2016, moves by the Obama administration, voting rights, lawmaking, and the way that elected officials represent our communities. Three times a week, we will go beyond the mainstream media’s “pack” coverage of politics to highlight the underreported aspects of how politics and policy […]

Democratic lawmakers are introducing a new bill that is set to restore the cornerstone of the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court gutted the decades-old legislation two years prior. The move comes just days before the anniversary of the June 25, 2013 decision that obliterated Section 5 and in turn, strengthened voter discrimination sanctioned by […]

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for every American to automatically be registered to vote while calling out four potential GOP presidential rivals for being “scared of letting citizens have their say,” CNN reports. During a talk at the historically Black Texas Southern University, Clinton said she supports the idea of signing every […]

On Tuesday, TV One aired the NewsOne Now State of Emergency: Baltimore and Beyond Town Hall meeting, exploring Black America and its relationship with law enforcement. The conversation during the two-hour-long town hall meeting became so compelling that after the initial live telecast, NewsOne Now kept the cameras rolling. Dr. Umar Johnson, Certified School Psychologist and political scientist, was […]