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Showing posts with label voter suppression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter suppression. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2022

Faith Leaders Call On NFL to move Super Bowl from Arizona due to racist voting laws

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A coalition of 400 faith leaders call on NFL to move Super Bowl LVII from Arizona in 2023 due to restrictive voting laws. In 2021, Arizon...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Rep. Terri Sewell Statement on Federal Court Blocking Alabama Congressional Map

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U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) released the following statement after a federal court blocked Alabama’s new congressional map in favor of...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

National Black Voter Day is National Urban League's Answer to Voter Suppression

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Marc H. Morial  President and CEO National Urban League   “Too many people struggled, suffered and died to make it possible for every Am...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

LeBron James starts voting rights group

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LeBron James is creating a voting rights group aimed in part at motivating African Americans to cast ballots in November, the NBA star to...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

BET Announces Social Impact Campaign #ReclaimYourVote

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Los Angeles, CA – February 20, 2020 – Today, at META:2020, BET Networks announced #ReclaimYourVote, a social change campaign in partners...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Stacey Abrams to fight voter suppression in 2020

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During an interview for ABC's This Week Stacey Abrams, said she will continue to make the fight against voter suppression her forem...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

STACEY ABRAMS TO SPEAK ON VOTER SUPPRESSION AT NAACP 110TH NATIONAL CONVENTION

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The Honorable Stacey Abrams will speak on the importance of ending voter suppression during the annual NAACP Convention in Det...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Stacey Abrams calls on 2020 presidential hopefuls to fight voter suppression

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Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called on 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to speak out forcefully against v...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Cummings: Kemp should testify about voter suppression allegation

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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who's expected to become the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sa...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Waller County, Texas expands early voting for Prairie View A&M students

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Two days after students at Prairie View A&M University sued Waller County over allegations that the county is suppressing the voting...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Tennessee Black Voter project sues Tennessee county over invalid voter registrations

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A group representing black voters is suing the election commission in Tennessee's largest county, which includes Memphis, after thou...
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Cory Booker Statement on Dissolution of Trump Voter Fraud Commission

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Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who has led the fight against the Trump voter fraud commission in the Senate issued the ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Federal judge strikes down Texas' voter ID law

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A federal court in Texas on Wednesday struck down the state's controversial voter identification law, granting an injunction that ba...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Rev. Jesse Jackson visits Fla., discusses voter suppression

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson says there was no evidence of voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election but says President Trump's Comm...
Friday, July 07, 2017

Booker asks N.J. to keep data from Trump voter fraud commission

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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker asked NJ state officials to reject any request from President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission for inform...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Eric Holder Rips Republicans For Trying To Make It More Difficult To Vote

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder says it’s “shameful” Republicans are seeking to implement photo ID laws and other measures that ma...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Trump: Black voters staying home ‘almost as good’ as those who voted for him

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When many of us tried to warn our fellow black voters that staying home and not voting was a vote for Donald Trump ...
Saturday, November 05, 2016

Hey Democrats, don't panic over lower African American early voting turnout

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports Democratic strategist, talking heads, and many Hillary Clinton supporters are in a sli...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Black church set on fire & vandalized with "Vote Trump" graffiti

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Hopewell Baptist Church, a black church in Greenville Mississippi was set on fire and vandalized with graffiti that read "Vote ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

NAACP office sues North Carolina, alleging voter suppression

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The North Carolina NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against the state for what it alleges is a Republican effort to suppress African-Am...