Tag: Jim Crow

Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a “gerrymandering arms race” that “could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era,” explains Berman.

“One of the worst voter suppression bills in the country” just advanced in Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature.

These state laws are another form of voter suppression – like gerrymandering, voter ID requirements, and bars on anyone with felony convictions from voting.

While activists have won some important battles in putting an end to the costly debacle of the drug war, the fight will continue.