Protesters gathered in Raleigh and Chapel Hill to oppose HB2, chronicled here in a photo essay.
Civil Rights in America
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A Survey of Felon Voting Rights on Super Tuesday
Laws preventing ex-offenders from voting vary across the country, and disenfranchise millions.
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How Scalia’s Absence Impacts Democracy Rulings
What Scalia’s absence means for voting rights, redistricting, and Citizens United.
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The Makings of a New Democracy-Reform Coalition?
A broad coalition of 160 civil-rights, pro-democracy, and other progressive organziations have announced plans for an ambitious Democracy Spring campaign that will culminate with a massive rally and sit-in at the capitol in April. The campaign includes a 140-mile march that is scheduled to kick off on March 2 from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in […]
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Prospect Debate: The Illusion of a Minority Majority America
Four knowledgeable commentators respond to Richard Alba’s argument in the Prospect that America will continue to have a white majority.
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Reframing Race in the Census
Racial classifications distort social realities, yet without classification the nation cannot produce the data necessary for a common conversation about race, however distorted.
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Yes, But How Will They Vote?
Ethnicity is one of many factors that help determine a person’s voting preference.
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The Latino Flight to Whiteness
Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of “majority-minority” America.
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Ethnoracial Diversity: Toward a New American Narrative
It is folly to see America as divided into two groups, whites and nonwhites.
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Response to Comments
The Census Bureau needs to look at race in a more accurate and nuanced way.
