Federal Court Hears Pivotal Voting Rights Case
This week, a federal court heard a case "that will determine the outcome of one of the most unprecedented attacks against voting rights in history." Read more
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Law Students Encouraged to Help Make Voting More Accessible
Project Vote interns Julia Burzynski and Sarah Schwartz get a better understanding of the challenges we face a nation, especially in the area of voting rights. Read more
Voting is the Heart of Democracy
ACYPL fellow, Jean Alia Robles muses on modern-day American voting issues and how democracies in the world should be inclusive of all citizens. Read more
How the Obama Administration is Failing Would-Be Voters
Yesterday, three of America’s leading voting rights organizations—including the organization I work with, Project Vote—wrote to the President of the... Read more
Voting Rights Struggle Continues Today
Elusive: (adj) hard to find or capture. This is how Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) described the long, ongoing fight to... Read more
North Carolina Citizens Take Action for Democracy
Thousands of North Carolinians traveled from all over the state to support the lawsuit challenging the 2013 Voter Information Verification Act... Read more
Roanoke Rally Issues Call to Action on Voting Rights
Congress has had an urgent task on its plate for two years now, yet it has failed to act. Read more
The View from the Bridge
Wonderful as the idea of a 50th anniversary weekend commemorating Bloody Sunday seemed, the risk was that it would only be a look backward. Connections needed to be made with what is going on now... Read more
Why Selma Matters Today
On March 7 1965, over 500 civil rights activists led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams embarked on a march... Read more
Project Vote Testimony on State of Civil Rights
Project Vote submitted testimony today on “The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States” for a hearing held... Read more