Texas sees surge of disenfranchised voters
A black grandmother. A college student. A pregnant mom. A struggling white woman. All spoke about the huge obstacles they faced in trying to cast a ballot....
View ArticleFate of Texas' tough voter ID law in judge's hands
The fate of Texas' tough voter ID law moved into the hands of a federal judge Monday, following a trial that the U.S. Justice Department said exposed another chapter in the state's troubling history of...
View ArticleA giant's soaring voice stilled
Schenectady The voice of memoirist and poet Maya Angelou was so powerful that students at Union College shut out from a standing-room-only crowd of 900 inside Memorial Chapel gathered outside beneath...
View ArticleVoter registration in Ferguson surges after Michael Brown killing
www.usatoday.com ; More than 3,000 people have registered to vote in Ferguson, Mo., since the death of Michael Brown — a surge in interest that may mean the city of 21,000 people is ready for a change,...
View ArticleAppeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law
Travel deals AUSTIN, Texas - (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's...
View Article5 questions with Ana Lazarin
Ana Lazarin, director of programs to broaden participation in engineering at Wichita State University, works to instill in students an interest in engineering. She does a lot of outreach, recruitment...
View ArticleInez's Granddaughter Brings Back Vivid Memories of African American Experience
When Capitol Hill Staffer Florence Champagne decided to write a memoir about her family, she did it with preserving family history, not to stir the emotions of many African Americans who had lived...
View Article05/10: More than 680 NCCU Baccalaureate Graduates Encouraged to ‘Work for...
(Source: North Carolina Central University) Noted civil rights lawyer Lezli Baskerville praised member of North Carolina Central University's Class of 2014 for their accomplishments then urged them to...
View ArticleICYMI: Voter ID Law Disenfranchises Senior Citizens (Texas Democratic Party)
(Source: Texas Democratic Party) September 04, 2014 ICYMI: Voter ID Law Disenfranchises Senior Citizens In case you missed it, this week the Texas voter ID trial began in Corpus Christi where U.S....
View ArticleJustices allow Texas use of new voter ID law
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A majority of the nation's...
View ArticleTexas voter ID law: Discriminatory or common sense?
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice, joining several civil rights groups, told a federal judge Tuesday in South Texas that the Texas voter identification law violates...
View ArticleSen. Cornyn, Secretary Berry Highlight Efforts To End Disenfranchisement Of...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Judiciary) HOUSTON-U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today was joined by Texas Secretary of State Nandita Berry and representatives from several veterans organizations at...
View ArticleSen. Cornyn, Secretary Berry Highlight Efforts To End Disenfranchisement Of...
(Source: John Cornyn) HOUSTON-U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today was joined by Texas Secretary of State Nandita Berry and representatives from several veterans organizations at the National United...
View ArticleJustice Department: Texas voter ID discriminatory
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the Obama administration in a trial that could threaten the polarizing law, although...
View ArticleTexas' Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting
WASHINGTON -- A Texas voter ID law considered to be one of the most restrictive in the country is doing exactly what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg : stopping Americans from voting. A...
View ArticleHere Are All the Movies Opening Today, January 30; What Will You See?
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, January 30th. (Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.) Wide Black...
View Article>Appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of...
View ArticleIndia polls see surge in voter turnout
Biggest day of voting today with people in nine states set to cast their ballots Added At: 2014-04-16 10:22 PM Last Updated At: 2014-04-16 10:22 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The...
View ArticleAn open letter to students
When you are out of school, no one is going to give you anything. No one is going to hand over the keys, jot down a good grade, or sign off on the salary you want “just because.” This time, it is time...
View ArticleLawyer tells judge cases of voter ID are rare
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- An Austin-based elections lawyer told a federal judge Wednesday that cases of voter fraud - an underlying premise for the Texas voter identification law - are rare. Buck Wood...
View ArticleFerguson's government sucked, and voters just did something about it
It's been eight months of hell in Ferguson, but things are finally changing. Voter turnout for this week's city council election nearly triples from the previous election. Two black candidates were...
View ArticleIndia election 2014: Voters displaced and disenfranchised
10 April 2014 Last updated at 02:49 BST The third day of voting in India's general election is due to be one of the biggest but in one constituency, many people will not be casting their ballot. In the...
View ArticlePromising futures
Clovis Veterans Memorial Hall was buzzing with positive energy this past Wednesday during the 2015 Students of Promise ceremony, as 14 Clovis Unified students were honored for having overcome extreme...
View ArticleFerguson City Elections 2015 Results Black Voter Surge Brings Historic...
A voter wears a button with the image of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by a white police officer, after casting his ballot in the U.S. midterm elections in Ferguson, ......
View ArticleStudy: Even for college-educated blacks, road to full-time work is rocky
Months before he graduated from college, Jeramey Winfield was sending out resumes and applying for jobs online in Chicago. The media studies major hoped to jump from Colby-Sawyer College in New...
View ArticleResearch Says African-American Women Are The Most Likely To ‘Marry Down’
According to research conducted by the Brookings Institution, black women are more likely to marry a man who is less educated and less financially stable. With African-American men being less likely to...
View ArticleThe Woman Behind MyFitnessPal Says If You Don't See A Female Role Model,...
The wildly popular health app MyFitnessPal recently sold for $475 million to sports megabrand Under Armour. Until about a year ago, it didn’t even have a marketing team. But it didn’t take content guru...
View ArticleWhy black voters didn't help GOP win
updated 1:49 PM EST, Wed November 5, 2014 Samantha Mongoven casts her vote in the hallway of the historic courthouse in Boulder, Montana, on Tuesday, November 4. Millions of people nationwide are...
View ArticleClosing polls disenfranchises voters
I write concerning the proposal to close many polling...
View ArticleFrom chaos in N. Phila. to a White house invitation
Chionque Mines, 22, was not sure how to react to the news that she'd been chosen to introduce President Obama at the recent White House College Opportunity Summit. It was the last week of classes at...
View ArticleWoman who faced Jim Crow takes on North Carolina's powers over voting rights
Rosanell Eaton, 93, is challenging a voter ID law that she and other plaintiffs say targets black voters with slew of new hurdles...
View ArticleCobie Smulders Mopes Through Thoughtful, Sleepy Pregnancy Drama
Pregnancy and motherhood may be experiences most women share, but you probably don’t need a fractious mommy blog to tell you that these states of being also emphasize differences of race, class,...
View ArticleNPR Host Michel Martin's Own 'Letter From A Birmingham Jail'
As the host of the program Tell Me More, Michel Martin has spent seven years bringing the NPR audience news and commentary on a near-daily basis. But even as the show nears its final broadcast on...
View ArticleMany NDC voters in Sunyani East disenfranchised
Many members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were disfranchised in the parliamentary primary in the Sunyani East constituency. According to Presiding Officers (POs) at the...
View ArticleMyanmar vote count begins on Suu Kyi's day of destiny
YANGON: Millions of people voted Sunday in Myanmar's landmark election, with a massive turnout that could catapult Aung San Suu Kyi's party to power and finally end decades of military control. Voters...
View ArticleFirst lady: Education is most important civil rights issue
WASHINGTON Michelle Obama on Friday called education the "single most important" civil rights issue facing the country and pleaded with young people to make going to school a priority, even if all they...
View ArticleWilson accuses Emanuel of disenfranchising black voters
Mayor Rahm Emanuel was accused Tuesday of “disenfranchising” African-American voters with a petition challenge...
View ArticleSocial Justice Blog - Black at Mizzou: A Tiger’s perspective (Roosevelt...
(Source: Roosevelt University) November 25, 2015 By Briana Sparks, Roosevelt MFA in creative writing student, ’17 Leave a Comment What a time to be a Tiger! The past several weeks have been extremely...
View ArticleMy baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as 'black'?
My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word black: she drags out the a and makes the k extra hard for an effect that drowns the c. “Blaaaak” out of my grandmother’s mouth is...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Calls Education The Most Important Civil Rights Issue
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama on Friday called education the "single most important" civil rights issue facing the country and pleaded with young people to make going to school a priority, even if...
View ArticleMany young Latino voters in Nevada bet on Sanders while their parents back...
Last year, Nevada college student Ivan Soto was one of about 800,000 Latinos in the United States who turned 18 and became eligible to vote. He and other millennials — those born in the 1980s and 1990s...
View ArticleNevada’s Coveted Latino Voters
Scott Sonner / AP RENO, Nevada—Young Latinos in this college town could help decide the way their state swings in the Democratic caucus. But exactly who they will choose to support remains unclear,...
View ArticleBlack Expo promotes higher education, voter turnout
Thousands on Saturday flocked to the Sacramento Convention Center for Black Expo, an annual event that celebrates Black History Month and aims to increase opportunities for the city’s African American...
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