Turnout by voters of color went up by double digits in Tennessee and other states last year, prompting a spate of GOP bills designed to shut down voter registration drives.
Tennessee
Posted inEducation in America
The Highlander Center Won’t Let an Arsonist Extinguish Its Flame of Justice
The Tennessee training center has been a hub of the civil rights movement and progressive organizing since 1932. It appears that hatemongers have again tried to shut it down.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tennessee Republicans Experience Cognitive Dissonance on Poverty
Tennessee has increased welfare benefits for the first time in 22 years, while also proposing to kick people off medical and food assistance.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Battling Blight in Memphis
Tennessee’s second-largest city has become a national model for eliminating the scourge of abandoned buildings and vacant lots.