Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Wisconsin GOP Moves Bad Voting Bills This week, Wisconsin Republicans doubled down on foolishness. Introducing legislation, holding hearings and voting on a number of bills that seek to diminish the rights of others, they have been on a roll. Working to roll back voting protections, roll back voter […]
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Time is Money: Exploring the 21st Century Poll Tax Levied by the Georgia G.O.P.
By LaKeshia N. Myers When I was a classroom teacher, to explain the inequity of poll taxes and other ballot-blocking measures that were used in the Jim Crow south, I would give my students the Louisiana voter literacy test. Students had 10 minutes to answer the questions and undoubtedly all of them would fail—because the […]
Jessica Boling Talks Voter Suppression and the Lessons Learned from the 2020 Election
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Voter suppression seems like a thing of the past, after all no group is denied the right to vote based on their gender or race, but just because something is outlawed doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in other forms. Today, voter suppression takes form in voter ID laws, purged voter rolls, language […]
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The Passion of The Vote
By LaKeshia Myers Where you there when they crucified my Lord? Where you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble! were you there when they crucified my Lord? ~Negro Spiritual “Father, I cannot forgive them for they know exactly what they do!” I said to myself silently […]