Tag: rights
Barney Frank, a liberal congressman and trailblazer for gay rights, dies. He was 86
WASHINGTON – Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted the most significant reforms...
NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights
WASHINGTON – The NAACP has recently launched a campaign called “Out of Bounds,” urging Black athletes and their supporters to boycott athletic programs at...
On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights, facing brutal violence from Alabama state troopers. Two weeks later, they returned...
Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation
ATLANTA – Same fight. New generation.A multiracial coalition of civil rights leaders and activists is mobilizing to combat a predominantly white conservative alliance that...
How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Texas’ electoral maps by empowering voters, candidates of color
In 2002, U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla, a Republican, nearly lost his South Texas seat to Democrat Henry Cuellar. So when the GOP used its...
Black Americans face a new fight for racial representation after justices’ Voting Rights Act ruling
JACKSON, Miss. – At 16, Edward Blackmon Jr. was arrested during a protest for voting rights in his Mississippi hometown. He was loaded with...