Voter Suppression

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January 17, 2021
Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma apologized to Black constituents and never intended to diminish the voice of Black American voters.
December 10, 2020
They said rising COVID-19 rates and worker burnout in Cobb County were behind the decision to offer five polling locations,…
Donald Trump thegrio.com
November 9, 2020
President Trump set up a hotline for people to report voter fraud but TikTok users are flooding it with prank…
Riot police North Carolina lawsuit thegrio.com
November 3, 2020
Police in North Carolina pepper-sprayed and arrested individuals who participated in a voting march on Saturday. Now they are being…
Actor Morgan Freeman
October 31, 2020
Actor Morgan Freeman unites with the NAACP to deliver poignant yet urgent ad on the importance of voting leading up…
October 30, 2020
Kemba Smith Pradia is using her voice to advocate for voting rights for formerly incarcerated people after serving over six…
October 18, 2020
Police want to ensure security at the polls without scaring away voters who might be offended by the sight of…
September 20, 2020
Voting problems in and around Atlanta have become a national flash point because they disproportionately affect Black residents.
July 24, 2020
LeBron James has teamed with several Black athletes and entertainers to launch a non-profit aimed at fighting voter suppression against…
June 26, 2020
Symone Sanders partnered with My Black Is Beautiful to spread awareness about voter suppression as the country heads into the…
June 9, 2020
Atlantans risking the coronavirus to vote in their state's primary were met with broken voting machines says Mayor Keisha Lane…
Mayor Quinton Lucas theGrio.com
March 11, 2020
The Black mayor of Kansas City went to vote on Tuesday in an area where the electorate is mostly Black…
Stacey Abrams thegrio
January 15, 2020
Stacey Abrams' new book that will focus on the need for voting reform and is called 'Our Time is Now:…
Michael Bloomberg Stacey Abrams
January 11, 2020
Presidential nominee hopeful Michael Bloomberg kicked off his first campaign appearance in Georgia with an early morning stop at an…
Georgia Voting Machines thegrio.com AP
December 11, 2019
Grassroots efforts of one predominantly Black community in a rural Georgia county caused an elections board to reopen a polling…
May 6, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris called out president Trump on his rhetoric while calling for Election Day to become a national holiday…
In this pool image from video, Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic party's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 from Atlanta. Abrams narrowly lost her bid in November to become America's first black female governor, and party leaders are aggressively recruiting her to run for U.S. Senate from Georgia. Speaking from Atlanta, Abrams calls the shutdown a political stunt that "defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values." (Pool video image via AP) thegrio.com
February 6, 2019
Last night, Donald Trump finally got the opportunity to address a joint session of Congress and deliver his second State
Stacey Abrams thegrio.com
December 4, 2018
[griojw id=”fBBoVNbS” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   The U.S. House of Representatives plans to ramp things up in January, starting an investigation into
Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum thegrio.com
November 27, 2018
On Tuesday, Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams jointly called on Senator Republicans contest President Donald Trump’s judicial pick based on…
Stacey Abrams thegrio.com
November 20, 2018
Democratic House Minority Leader Bob Trammell proposed legislation Friday introducing a bill that would prevent the government from removing voters…