The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act has cemented President Trump’s legacy in erasing civil rights and equal opportunity.
Race & Ethnicity
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The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
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The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
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Turning Civil Rights Inside Out
The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
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The Real Reason to Worry About the Midterm Elections
Some worry about a November Trump coup. That’s far-fetched, but the ordinary forms of voter suppression are the greater concern.
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Could the New Florida Congressional Map Be a Dummymander?
Special elections have gone sharply against Donald Trump’s successes in the 2024 election. This November, the GOP’s bid to pick up four Democratic seats could similarly fall flat.
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Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is Up
Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class.
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Hegseth, Xi, Stalin
Paranoid purges of generals and admirals are common to dictators and tin-pot wannabes.
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A Black Man’s Death at the Hands of Police Is Going Unacknowledged
Stephenson King Jr. was shot and killed by a Boston police officer last month. It hasn’t yet made national headlines.
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Congressional Black Caucus to Support Spying Powers Used on BLM Activists
The Congressional Black Caucus will support the clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702, a warrantless surveillance authority that has been used to spy on African Americans.