EURPublisher01 May 22, 2017 The Supreme Court struck down two congressional district maps in North Carolina Monday, holding that the state had engaged in an unconstitutional gerrymander, reports CNN. The court found that race was a factor in the way state lawmakers drew congressional maps after the 2010 Census in order to
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Taryn Finley Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Poet Clint Smith III takes a critical look at the Founding Fathers’ role in oppressing black people in his latest poem entitled “History Reconsidered.” His piece served as a letter to five of the United States presidents who owned slaves, George Washington,
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By Joan WalshTwitter February 28, 2016 When the history of the 2016 presidential primary is written, if Hillary Clinton is the party’s nominee, it will show that Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign effectively ended in South Carolina, where Clinton trounced him by 49 percent, winning African Americans by an astonishing 86–14
Continue readingThe 50th Anniversary Coalition for Jobs, Justice, and Freedom has announced plans for a 7-day commemoration of the historic 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The commemorative program, scheduled for August 21-28, 2013 on the National mall in Washington, DC includes:
Continue readingThe Wisconsin constitution allowed black citizens to vote, provided that the idea was “submitted to the vote of the people at a general election, and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election.” When in 1849 Wisconsin residents voted on that question, African American voting rights
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