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Black Americans were never supposed to exercise the right to vote

The white political elite in America – politicians, judges, lawyers, policymakers, businesses and corporations – has never as ...
Yahoo

Do Black voter protections discriminate against White people? Supreme Court weighs in

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court could be ready to curtail a key provision of a landmark civil rights law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting. In one of its biggest cases of ...

Supreme Court seems likely to limit race-based electoral districts under Voting Rights Act

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...

Report: Black Memphis Residents Feel Unsafe In Presence Of Trump's ‘Safe Task Force'

A ProPublica and MLK50 investigation reveals claims of harassment and racial profiling against Black Memphis residents by ...
The Grio

Supreme Court case could grant Trump and Republicans power to trample Black voting rights ...

"They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place--and doing it at the expense of Black communities and Black voters," Cliff Albright, co-founder of ...
AOL

Are Black voting rights under siege at the Supreme Court?

WASHINGTON – When Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation in 1965 to stop racial discrimination in voting, only six members of the U.S. House were Black. Today, there are 10 times as many ...

Asian American Students Increase at Harvard, as Black Students Decline

The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial ...