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Can America Escape Race? The Paradox of Colorblindness
Ever since he attained the age of majority some four decades ago, Terence Hamilton, now 57, has voted in Mississippi's Second Congressional District, covering 30 counties across th…
Supreme Court Rebukes Effort To Force Race-Based House Map On Deep Red State
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday to allow Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower court previously blocked.…
How Congress Can Pass a New Voting Rights Act Despite the Supreme Court
Even after Callais, Congress has the power, under the guarantee clause, to stamp out state efforts to decimate Black representation.…
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Alabama can use a red…
The Arc of the Voting Rights Act
Louisiana Republicans erased a majority-Black congressional district.…
In Alabama Case, Supreme Court Faces First Major Test of Voting Rights Act Ruling
Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters.…
‘We’re going backwards’: Black political power under threat in Alabama after Voting Rights Act gutting
US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards…
Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act
On this week’s “More To The Story,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie examines the conservative movement’s yearslong effort to challenge the right to vote across the country.…
Supreme Court ends racial stereotype gerrymandering
After arguments regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana v. Callais last October, I wrote the likely holding striking racially gerrymandered voting districts would affe…
The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”
Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life. The post The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem” appeared first…
The Supreme Court just handed down two surprisingly timid Voting Rights Act decisions
Why did a Court that hates the Voting Rights Act with the intensity of a thousand suns decide to stay its hand?…
The Supreme Court avoids taking up a fight over Voting Rights Act enforcement for now
After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may severely limit enforcement of the law's remaining protections …
Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act - Reuters
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Voting Rights Act Never Mandated Racial Districts
Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has been a steady drumbeat of criticism...…
Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act
Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act
SELMA, Alabama, May 18 - Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by club-wielding Alab…
Introducing Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast
The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in redistricting. Southern states from Tenn…