Black female organizers from across the country are coming together to protest the overturning of Roe V. Wade on Sept. 30, in honor of the national DAY WITHOUT US initiative.
In a now-deleted tweet, University of Tennessee Chattanooga assistant football coach Chris Malone posted hateful comments about former Georgia House Democratic Leader, Stacey Abrams. His comments followed Abrams playing a major role in the Democratic party's wins in the Georiga Senate runoff elections.
Abrams made a surprise guest appearance at Thursday's Verzuz battle, encouraging Georgia residents to get out and vote in the upcoming Senate runoff race.
Black women continue to answer the call in spearheading civic engagement in their communities, so it should be no surprise that some of the most impactful voter rights movements are led by them as well.
96-year-old Dorothy Cooper was denied a voter ID on a technicality.
(New York Times) — This has not been a good year for elections in New York State, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday. The state recorded one of the lowest turnouts in the midterm elections of any state. And over the last three federal elections, New York has averaged 47th among the 50 states in voter […]
(Politics365) — As redistricting battles show signs of heating up nationwide next year, the Illinois state legislature is taking steps to include minority protection provisions in legislative district redrawing. Passed 53 to 4 in the Illinois State Senate, a state Voting Rights Act of 2011 would solicit opinions from Illinois voters before redrawing takes place […]
(Washington Post) — President Obama met with District Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray on Wednesday for nearly an hour about the incoming city administration’s priorities, but the two men did not come to a consensus on how best to advance the cause of District voting rights, Gray said. Emerging from the White House after his one-hour […]
(Washington Examiner) — Advocates of voting rights for D.C. in the House of Representatives say the Republican takeover of Congress appears to have doomed their efforts for now. The D.C. voting rights push had momentum in 2008 after the election of President Barack Obama. But House leaders decided to pull a voting rights bill from […]
(AJC) — Georgia voters lodged 476 complaints about Tuesday’s election, including problems with voting equipment, registration and a few isolated incidents of voter intimidation, the voting rights group Election Protection of Georgia said. People complained most about registration problems, such as someone believing they were registered to vote but finding they were not on the […]
(NPR) — No one expects African-Americans to vote in anywhere near their numbers from 2008, when their 65 percent turnout matched that of whites for the first time. But that isn’t stopping Democratic organizers and supporting groups from using aggressive, even racially charged, tactics to get them to the polls Tuesday. The Democratic Party, organized labor and […]
(Wall Street Journal) — The New York City Board of Elections printed ballots that incorrectly instruct voters to fill in the oval “above or next to” their favored candidate’s name. The ovals on the ballot are neither above nor next to, but below the candidates’ names. This latest humiliation for the beleaguered Board of Elections […]