by News Headlines | Jun 19, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
We speak with Bishop William Barber and Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about plans for Saturday’s Moral March on Washington and to the Polls to demand the government address key issues facing poor and low-income communities. The march...
by News Headlines | May 29, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
ATLANTA—When Atondra Bush sped into the Rainbow Elementary School parking lot on Election Day, you could hear the exasperation in her voice as she called out to voters on the sidewalk. “Am I too late?” she asked. It was 7:08 p.m. on Tuesday’s primary election day. The...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | News Current Events and Research
Women Engaged champions Black mothers as voters and civic minded leaders in their communities. Source: Malika Redmond / Women Engaged As the nation is reeling again from a violent act of white supremacy to the pending SCOTUS decision on abortion rights to the...
by News Headlines | May 12, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that a top Texas court has ordered a re-examination of a controversial election fraud case that sentenced a Black woman to five years in prison for improperly casting a provisional ballot. “The Texas Court of Criminal...
by News Headlines | Apr 21, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
(CNN) — Voting rights advocates had warned that controversial elections laws Georgia legislators passed in 2021 would lead to partisan takeovers of local election boards, resulting in a curtailing of Sunday early voting — a popular option among Black churchgoers, a...
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