North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and ...
Along with researchers from James Madison University, three collaborators in the Office of the Provost recently published in ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The time has long since come to eliminate the literacy test for voter registration from ...
North Carolina's constitution still requires a literacy test for voting, a Jim Crow-era tactic used to exclude Black voters. NC voters in 1970 refused to remove it. State House lawmakers want to try ...
Why aren’t liberals more outraged by the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency? After all, the administration’s white paper outlining what the agency should do contains some eyebrow-raising ...