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Legal Scholar Says Black People ‘Will Lose’ On SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision: Here’s Why The Timing Matters

A prominent Black legal scholar is sounding the alarm ahead of a major Supreme Court decision that could reshape voting rights, and potentially the 2026 midterm elections.

‘It’s a Struggle They Will Wage Alone.’ How Black Women Won the Right to Vote

The activism of Black women often predated that of famous white suffragists—and still informs debates over what history is worth remembering ...
Truthout

Black Seniors Without Birth Records Could Be Disenfranchised by SAVE America Act

One-fifth of Black Americans born in 1939 and 1940 were never issued birth certificates, according to one estimate.
The Root

Midterm Elections: What Do Black Women Want?

Making sense of high-profile House, Senate and gubernatorial races this tight will mean breaking down every voting bloc into microscopic bits of data to parse in the postmortem. And of all the big ...
St. Louis American

Will Georgia’s Black male vote impact the 2026 election cycle?

There has been plenty of debate over how Black male voters influenced the 2024 presidential election — whether they helped shape the outcome in Georgia and other battleground states or hurt the ...
Human Rights WatchOpinion

Black Voting Rights in Mississippi

In Mississippi, 38 percent of residents are Black yet there are no Black statewide elected officials. The last time a Black ...