Voting Rights
"My dear friends: Your vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to create a more perfect union."
Rep. John Lewis
Read
Large Racial Turnout Gap
Persisted in 2020 Election
The Brennan Center, August 2021
Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights
for Generations. Now the GOP
Is Repeating History.
Mother Jones, June 2021
Voting Laws Roundup:
May 2021
The Brennan Center, May 2021
A short history of the long conservative assault on
Black voting power
CNN, May 2021
Florida Republicans Just Passed a Georgia-Style Voter Suppression Bill
Mother Jones, April 2021
Texas Republicans are Taking
Voter Suppression to the Next Level
Vanity Fair, April 2021
How Gerrymandering
Began in the US
History, April 2021
If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?
The New York Times, April 2021
M.L.B. Pulls All-Star Game
From Georgia in Response
to Voting Law
The New York Times, April 2021
Virginia Becomes
a Voting Rights Bastion
The New York Times, April 2021
HP, Dow, Under Armour among
nearly 200 companies speaking
out against voting law changes
in Texas, other states
The Washington Post, April 2021
What Georgia’s Voting
Law Really Does
The New York Times, April 2021
Gov. Brian Kemp signed a wide-ranging bill that targets Black voters with uncanny accuracy.
The Brennan Center, March 2021
Black Executives Call
on Corporations to Fight
Restrictive Voting Laws
The New York Times, March 2021
One Old Way of Keeping Black People From Voting Still Works
The New York Times, March 2021
Republicans Are Taking Their Voter Suppression Efforts to
New Extremes
Mother Jones, Feb. 2021
Democrats Push Voting-Rights Expansion With Fresh Urgency
New York, Jan. 2021
Black Voters Understood
What the Stakes Were
The Atlantic, Jan. 2021
Jail inmates can vote in Washington — but they may not know it
Crosscut, Oct. 2020
When voting doesn’t
work, inequity follows
The Washington Post, Sept. 2020
The Voting Rights Act
Hangs by a Thread
The Atlantic, Feb. 2021
Bill giving those with felonies
the right to vote is introduced
in Washington Legislature
The Seattle Times, Jan. 2021
Decades of Inequality Shadow
Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia
Moyers On Democracy, Nov. 2020
Are Democrats losing the
battle over voter suppression?
Politico, Oct. 2020
The Attack on Voting
in the 2020 Election
NYT Magazine, Sept. 2020
Strict absentee voting
limits proposed after
record Georgia turnout
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan. 2021
Oregon Bill Would Enable
People to Vote from Prison
The Appeal, Jan. 2021
Let the Incarcerated Vote
The Atlantic, Oct. 2020
Racist voter suppression
tactics are making a
comeback in the 2020.
Business Insider, Oct. 2020
The Racist History of
Voter Registration
Times Magazine, June 2020
U.S. judges are narrowing
voting protections. Some
fear lasting damage
NPR, Feb. 2022
'We're very concerned': Black
voters fear changes to
Georgia voting laws
NBC, March 2022
The Impact of Voter Suppression
on Communities of Color
The Brennan Center, Jan. 2022
Once again, Alabama is
the battleground over
Black voting rights
The Washington Post, April 2022
Judge Rules Parts of Florida
Voting Law Are Unconstitutional
The New York Times, March 2022
Felon voting ban is racially motivated and unconstitutional, NC judges rule
The News & Observer, March 2022
Articles
A federal judge blocks
Louisiana’s congressional map,
calling it a racial gerrymander.
The New York Times, June 2022
Undermining Elections
from Within and Without
The Brennan Center, April 2022
‘Democracy in Florida is not functioning.’ Governor’s rigged maps rob Black voters of power
The Guardian, April 2022
Books
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight
for a Fair America
Stacey Abrams, 2020
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is
Destroying Our Democracy
Carol Anderson, 2019
On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
Lawrence Goldstone, 2020
Let My People Vote:
My Battle to Restore
the Civil Rights of
Returning Citizens
Desmond Meade, 2020
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the
United States
Alexander Keyssar , 2000
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote,& Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones, 2020
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
Zachary Roth, 2016
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to
Get It Back
Thom Hartmann, 2020
Watch
Whose Vote Counts
Frontline
54 min.
Suppressed 2020:
The Fight to Vote
40 min.
Suppressed:
The Fight to Vote
38 min.
All In:
The Fight for Democracy
1 hour, 42 min.
Rigged: The Voter
Suppression Playbook
1 hour, 19 min.
Slay the Dragon
1 hour, 41 min.
Good Trouble
1 hour, 36 min.
Selma
2 hours, 8 min.
Recount
(Dramatization of 2000 election)
1 hour, 56 min.
All The Way
(LBJ & Voting Rights Act)
2 hours, 12 min.
Listen
System Check
Every Vote Must Count. We talk to Sherrilyn Ifill and Alicia Garza about the convoluted system of casting your vote. (49 min.)
Lady Don't Take No
Desmond Meade author of Let My People Vote & president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (45 min.)
When They See Us Vote
7 episode series
Organizations Working for Voting Rights & Reform
ACLU
Brennan Center
for Justice
Common
Power
Advancement
Project
Campaign
Legal Center
Demos
All Voting is Local
Black Voters
Matter
Civic Alliance
Common
Cause
Fair
Fight
FairVote
Florida Rights
Restoration Coalition
Florida Rising
Lawyers' Committee
for Civil Rights
The Leadership
Conference
Let America Vote
More Than a Vote
NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund
Rock the Vote
The Sentencing
Project
Southern Coalition
for Social Justice
Voice of the
Experienced
VoteRiders
Voting
Rights Lab
Washington
Voting Justice
Woke Vote