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Ohio Lawmaker Fights Voting Setbacks By Pushing A…

Many who believe in equal access to the ballot box were shaken when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a…
06.19.19
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Holder Addresses Voting Rights At National Urban League…

On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) referenced the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key provision of the…
06.19.19
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Another ‘NO’ On Civil Rights For Virginia Felons

Somebody needs to go back to law school in the state of Virginia when it comes to the issue of…
06.19.19
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Ex-Felons Seek Greater Voting Rights In Virginia

Michael Edwards, a community leader in southern Virginia, spent eight years in prison for a marijuana-trafficking conviction in the 1970s.…
06.19.19
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African Americans Protested For Voting Rights In Pennsylvania…

Although the fight for voting rights was a staple of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and through…
06.19.19
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Don’t Fall For These Voting Myths On Election…

Over recent years there have been conspiracies to scare, intimidate, confuse and just plain suppress in-person voting of minorities, the poor, and…
06.19.19
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Opelousas Massacre Occurred On This Date In 1868,…

The Opelousas Massacre in St. Landry Parish, La., has baffled historians over the years. From varying accounts, hundreds of Blacks…
06.19.19
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BREAKING: Pa. Supreme Court Returns Controversial Voter ID…

As the showdown between President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney takes shape before the November elections, the courts…
06.19.19
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Top Black Voter Disenfranchisement Tactics

Plots to suppress the African American vote date back to the Reconstruction Era. Prior to the Voter Rights Act of…
06.19.19
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Sharpton: “It’s Time We Take Our Country Back”

It’s high time we, the majority, take our country back: When certain individuals began chanting their mantra of ‘take our…
06.19.19
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How A 96-Year-Old Woman Rejected A Voter ID

This week, conservative-leaning, African-American columnist Juan Williams wrote an op-ed in The Hill defending the right to vote against states…
06.19.19
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Democrats To Launch Voter Restrictions Awareness Campaign

In response to reports that new voter laws could prohibit nearly five million people from voting, Senate Democrats are launching…
06.19.19
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Judge Raises Questions About Controversial Voting Rights Act

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County Alabama asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of…
06.19.19
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Black Voter In Philly Claims She Was Forced…

Philadelphia (HuffPo)– An African-American woman in Philadelphia reported that staff in a voting center made her affirm that her address…
06.19.19
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Congress Considers Reinstating Voting Rights For Ex-Felons

From The American Prospect: Three years after serving a bid for robbery, Glenn Martin tried to register to vote in…
06.19.19
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REPORT: One In Eight Black Men Denied The…
06.19.19