Black Vote

Shirley Chisholm, African American Politics, Black Politics, Black Vote, African American Candidates, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office | TIME For years, the hardest thing about getting women elected has been getting women to decide to run.
Criminal Justice Reform, Criminal Justice, African American Vote, Black Vote, Voter Restoration, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Floridians will vote this fall on restoring voting rights to 1.5 million felons | Orlando Sentinel If the amendment becomes law, it could have a huge effect on elections in a state as evenly split politically as Florida.
Sheila Oliver, Vi Lyles, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mary Parham Copelan, African American Politics, African American Vote, Black Vote, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Follow Black Women To Victory In 2018 | New York Amsterdam News According to the 2017 election exit polls, like they did recently in Alabama, Black women led the way in turning Virginia and New Jersey from red to blue, up and down the ballot.
Early Voting, Voter Suppression, Black Vote, African American Politics, KOLUMN Magazine, Magazine
After Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis | Slate In 2008, Barack Obama squeaked out an unexpected win in Indiana thanks in part to his huge margin of victory in Marion County, which has a large population of black Democrats.
Voter Suppression, Ohio Politics, African American Vote, Black Vote, Voting Rights Act, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Supreme Court Ruling On Ohio Voter Purge Will Have Long-Range Impact on Black Votes – Atlanta Black Star The United States Supreme Court’s decision to review a challenge to Ohio’s voters roll purge policy brings the question of voter discrimination to the forefront again.
Voter Suppression, Voter ID, Black Vote, African American Vote, Shelby County v. Holder, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
How Voter ID Laws Discriminate – The Atlantic A new comprehensive study finds evidence that strict voting laws do suppress the ballot along racial lines.
African American Vote, Black Vote, African American Politics, Redistricting, Gerrymandering, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Redistricting tops the Black political agenda – The Philadelphia Tribune When pollster YouGov asked voters what they knew about redistricting after a controversial ruling in the Supreme Court known as Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, No. 13, a massive cut of 40 percent of voters were “not sure.”
African American Vote, African American Politics, Black Vote, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Why People Vote for Counterproductive Policies – The Atlantic Human beings are really good at picking out cause-and-effect relationships. But they’re bad at predicting future consequences.
African American Voters, African American Politics, African Americans, Black Vote, Charles M Blow, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper.
Colin Kaepernick, African American Vote, Black Vote, Voter Suppression, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
On Colin Kaepernick’s Decision Not to Vote