voting rights

African-Americans have been played cheap, politically. Republican politicians assume Black voters are naïve and blindly loyal to the Democratic Party. Black voters are neither blindly loyal or naïve. Instead, Black voters have followed their political interests even when those choices were limited. History provides the examples. The present election proves the point.

Courtesy of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Pew Center on the States issued a report that makes it painfully clear that our antiquated system of voter registration sorely needs to be modernized.  Our nation's current, paper-based system of voter registration is costly, inefficient and, according to the Pew report, has resulted in one in four eligible Americans absent  from our voter rolls.