How a Black Movement About Freedom Became a Movement About Welfare
The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, ...
Review: What were the secret schools that helped prepare Black people to vote?
If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...
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The Fight to Vote Continues
Today’s fight to vote does not yet call on us to show the physical bravery displayed by the heroes on the Edmund Pettus ...
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Residents add detail to local voting rights history
The Rev. Joe Carter was the first African American since 1902 to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish in 1963, but he ...
The Supreme Court — and Black voters — may decide who controls the next Congress
Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...
Killed For Voting Then, Blocked From Voting Now: A History Of Attacks On Black Political Power
From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.
60 years later: Selma Foot Soldiers still fighting for equal voting rights
Reflecting on past struggles and emphasizing the importance of voting, the aging foot soldiers are urging younger generations ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...