The first week of returns for North Carolina show that the conflict over voter suppression rages on.
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NAACP sues to stop voter roll purging in N.C.
Local elections boards in North Carolina are illegally removing thousands of voters from the rolls, and a disproportionate number of them are Black, the NAACP said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
View MoreTrump’s ‘Voter Suppression Operation’ Targets Black Voters
Even as the Republican launches a purported African American outreach campaign 12 days before the election, his aides say their goal is to depress turnout in the bloc.
View MoreAmerica Is Having Another Anita Hill Moment
Only this time, the outrage at a powerful, predatory man is swifter and more universal.
View MoreCondoleezza Rice Calls On Donald Trump To Drop Out Of The Race
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broke her silence on the presidential election on Saturday and called on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to end his campaign.
View MoreIs Anything That Trump Says About African American Communities True?
Donald Trump makes it sound like black Americans lead terrible lives—filled with race riots, rampant shootings, and rapid rising unemployment. He seems to think that African American communities are all equally engulfed in poverty.
View MoreWisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
View More‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes
Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.
View MoreMark Burns, Trump’s Favorite Black Pastor: Hillary Wants ‘Genocide’ for Blacks
Meet Mark Burns, Trump’s most prominent surrogate to black voters, who’s tweeted a cartoon of Clinton in blackface and says she would kill Christianity.
View MoreCritics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
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