Disenfranchisement laws have been deployed against people of color to imprison would-be-voters and keep political power concentrated in the hands of white men. Last week on CNN’s “Town Hall,” the ...

Our racist criminal legal system denies voting rights to millions. We must end this practice of disenfranchisement in all its forms. Our democracy is strongest when all people have a say in decisions ...

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The “fuckers would be slaughtered.” So declared Cody Richard Griggers on a group text among militia members referring to what red America was prepared to do to blue America if widespread political ...

The echoes of grieving families and fearful voices demanding gun reform should be etched in your memory after the Tennessee General Assembly's special session on public safety. Countless lives have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi House lawmakers are again looking to address disenfranchisement of people previously convicted of nonviolent felonies, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court has been petitioned to take up and strike a portion of the Mississippi Constitution that disenfranchises ...

This fall, Virginians will vote on a constitutional amendment that would remove felony disenfranchisement from the Virginia ...

Higher levels of racial inequality in political disenfranchisement are linked to negative health outcomes in Black populations in the United States, according to a new Florida State University study.

On May 30, 2024, Donald Trump was convicted in a Manhattan courtroom on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal his affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Millions of Americans ...

The primary elections of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, in some parts of Abia State on Friday, witnessed allegations ...

Universal suffrage has long been accepted as the standard for enfranchisement in democracies, however full and equal participation is rarely the reality. One group in particular that is frequently ...