A new study provides evidence that Voter ID Laws are discriminatory. Marshall Walter Taylor, Chanelle Hardy and Raynard Jackson joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now”…
Now in its second week, the first trial challenging the voter ID law in the state of Wisconsin highlights what appears to be a growing…
Gov. McCrory has signed the controversial voter ID bill into law, that would require all NC residents to present a valid ID before they can vote. Now the NC- NAACP, who has been against the bill from the beginning has scheduled a news conference at 9:30 today to discuss the changes and talk about talk […]
Plots to suppress the African American vote date back to the Reconstruction Era. Prior to the Voter Rights Act of 1965, these were some of the more commonly used tactics by conservatives who wanted to keep blacks from voting. SEE ALSO: Why Newt Scares Me Violence In 1873, a gang of whites in Colfax, Louisiana […]
A few weeks ago, an elderly, 96-year-old Tennessee woman was denied the right to vote. She was African American. With the 2012 elections approaching, and the main candidate up for re-election being African American, many in the Black community have been the target of attempts to change voter ID laws that harken back to the […]
