Voting Rights

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VigilCandles thegrio.com
June 4, 2022
McGee, as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, organized young people to use nonviolent protests against segregation.
May 12, 2022
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday that the case of Crystal Mason be reconsidered by a lower appeals…
Pamela Moses
April 23, 2022
Charges against Black Lives Matter activist Pamela Moses are dismissed. She will no longer face a second trial for registering…
April 11, 2022
Georgia Democrats and leaders tell theGrio they’re not giving up the fight to protect the sacred right to vote in…
April 9, 2022
As Stacey Abrams makes another run at the governor’s mansion, a lawsuit stemming from the 2018 election is going to trial.
April 4, 2022
The Shelby County Election Commission has been hit with a lawsuit by the NAACP Memphis Branch, voting rights group, and…
April 1, 2022
TheGrio chatted with Sen. Klobuchar and D.C. Mayor Bowser about how Biden's budget could address issues important to Black communities.
Signs indicating where to vote
April 1, 2022
A judge struck down portions of a Florida election law, saying that the GOP-led government was using subtle tactics to…
March 29, 2022
North Carolina's felon voting ban, which cost some 70,000 people their voting rights, was overturned Monday by a state judges…
March 25, 2022
A third lawsuit has been filed by the Biden administration regarding Texas redistricting maps which have been deemed discriminatory.
March 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s
voting rights theGrio
March 20, 2022
A series of new laws that made voting more difficult in Arkansas were deemed unconstitutional and struck down on Friday…
March 17, 2022
Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000…
Poor People's Campaign
March 15, 2022
The Poor People's Campaign held its first in-person march and rally in Cleveland, Ohio -- the first of several marches…
Signs indicating where to vote
March 11, 2022
Most Americans in both major parties think voting rules in their states are appropriate and support a voter identification law,…
Pennsylvania Court thegrio.com
March 8, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a victory for Democrats, the Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina
March 8, 2022
Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. are meeting with Congressional leaders and White House officials.
Early Voting Begins In Florida
March 8, 2022
A federal lawsuit challenges Arkansas' new U.S. House district lines, claiming boundaries violate Black voters' rights.
Vice President Kamala Harris
March 6, 2022
Vice President Harris joined leaders in Selma to commemorate 57 years since protesters were brutally beaten on the Edmund Pettus…
Bloody Sunday - African American Studies
March 6, 2022
Vice President Harris's visit to Selma for the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" is a reminder that the struggle for equal…