The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to ban Black voters. It came too late for Black voters in Ocoee, Florida.
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Alabama will be allowed to keep a congressional map that critics say disadvantages Black voters. That does not bode well for 2022 midterms, argues a law scholar.
A record number of people voted in the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost, Joe Biden won. Now, GOP legislators across the country are trying to pass measures to limit voting.
African American voters are indispensable to any Democrat strategy. Given party affiliation is increasingly split down racial lines, is the best tactic to get out the black, anti-Trump vote?
Beneath the surface, this traditionally conservative state is closely divided.
The city’s image as a model for black mobility and civil rights is crumbling. An expert on race and class politics takes us behind the veneer of one of the South’s most important cities.
In Virginia, suburbanites, city-dwellers and black voters together rebuffed racism as an electoral strategy and handed Dems a huge win. Is this diverse coalition the future of Old Dominion politics?
Sanders can’t win the South without the support of black voters, and he doesn’t have that.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of African-American Studies, Georgia State University
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Professor of American Politics, George Mason University
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Professor American Politics, Political Science, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science/Policy Studies, Grinnell College
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
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Professor of History, Lawrence University