Subterms
Civil rights leaders understood the significance of that right to vote. Now we must fight to preserve – and use – those rights The United States is at a monumental crossroads in the year 2020. As a presidential election awaits in the very near future, so many of the civil rights that countless Americans fought […] More
As Super Tuesday looms, the New York mayor has been emphasizing his push for gun legislation and policies on systemic racism As presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg heads into the primary elections on Super Tuesday, the question of whether black voters will be able to look past the New York mayor’s legacy of stop-and-frisk continues to […] More
The Good Liars duo on monument placed in Iowa statehouse: ‘King’s racism is part of our heritage and we need to respect that’ They’re calling it a tiny statue for a tiny man. Given Iowa congressman Steve King’s pitiful history of racist and xenophobic comments, it may not be small enough. The statue, placed in […] More
Five years after a white officer shot Walter Scott in the back, those associated with the case hope its memory will steer voters Anthony Scott honours the memory of his brother Walter each time he casts a ballot. “I’m not the sort of person to go and visit graves,” he said, sat at a bustling […] More
The discriminatory voting system in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, allowed white people to win every city council seat. Now residents are fighting back More from this series: Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4 Everyone in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, seems to know that if you really want to find out what the city […] More
As we head back to South Carolina, the state that fought to protect the white primary until the 1950s, it’s as if black voters don’t matter – again In 1896, a moment marked by increased lynchings, violence and disfranchisement, South Carolina added to the woes and created the white primary. The law, which the rest […] More
Will African Americans overlook Bloomberg’s controversial history as New York mayor if they think he can beat Trump? The former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has made a huge push in recent weeks to attract black voters to his ground-breaking campaign to win the Democratic nomination for president. As he has poured more than half […] More
Black Americans’ relocation back to the south is changing voting blocs and making Democratic races more competitive Najeema Davis Washington spent more than 15 years as a federal employee in Washington DC before she returned to Charleston, the city she left in 1996. She brought with her a progressive outlook that ran counter to the […] More
