Tag: rights
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...
The Latest: Supreme Court weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court recently made a significant ruling that could change how voting districts are drawn in the United States. This decision has raised...