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Faking Democracy: More Evidence of Racist Barriers in US Voting
Tweet Cord Jefferson at TheRoot has a good piece on the 1965 Voting Rights Act now 45 years later. There are still many barriers to black voting, both as a result of disenfranchisement because of...
View ArticleWhite Stratagems: Interfering with People Of Color’s Vote
Tweet What in the world could Arizona’s challenge of the Voting Rights Act and the requirement passed in 12 states that citizens show government-issued picture ID’s before voting have in common? The...
View ArticleCivil Rights: Revolution or Counterrevolution?
Tweet In Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote: “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” My contention is that we are witnessing a similar...
View ArticleTexas Legislative Action to Restrict Voting
TweetAs most readers know, there have been numerous (mostly white) conservative attempts to reduce the voting opportunities and/or rights of voters likely to be liberal or to vote Democratic in various...
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Former Adviser Axelrod Warns White Racist Hostility to Obama Infects Politics
TweetEd Pilkington, chief reporter for the Guardian (US), reports: In an interview with the Guardian before the release of his new autobiography, [David] Axelrod spoke in frank terms about what he...
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Researchers Register Voters in County Jails
Tweet (Image source) Researchers like Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza have documented the political impact of felony disenfranchisement, the ways in which voting restrictions strip away citizenship,...
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