Tag: black voters
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
Young black voters may be the key to a Biden victory—if...
Surveys show that, rather than reflexively voting Democratic, young Black voters are pessimistic any Democrat can make a difference.
Despite prosecutor’s attempts to stop her, Georgia woman keeps registering voters
Jim Crow endures in Georgia as voter suppression efforts persist across the state. But get-out-the-vote activists are undaunted.
Alabama’s lessons for the Democratic Party
Social movements build power and make change, and the Democrats would be wise to heed the lessons of Alabama.
Black voters sue North Carolina over last-minute purges
The NAACP says the practice is disenfranchising thousands.
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Moderate Democrats: Splitting the party in two
This is the most important midterm election in American history. If the Democratic Party leadership splits the party and the Republicans win, Democrats will go the way of the Whig and the Tory.
ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Justice Department probe tests the UAW’s reform movement
Shawn Fain denies allegations that he misused union authority as a federal investigation and leadership election place one of organized labor’s most prominent unions under new pressure.
Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
The US kicks off world’s largest naval war games: RIMPAC, China, & the cost...
The newest escalation of U.S. preparations for war on China will further militarize the Pacific and normalizing the prospect of conflict through increasingly large-scale exercises and an ever-expanding web of alliances and military bases.