More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled with remembrances of Martin Luther King, Jr., because in it falls the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination. It will also be a year filled with remembrances of 1968 itself as the culminating year of the 1960s, a year in which the country seemed divided even […]
African-American Voting Rights articles on Democracy Chronicles
This is our collection of African-American voting rights related articles. Few ongoing crisis in American elections have more importance to the integrity of the democracy than the imperative of ensuring voting rights for African-Americans. Also see Democracy Chronicles articles on African-Americans and Democracy, the Civil Rights Era, Minority Voting, and our unfortunate category: Racism.
Rest In Power: Photos from Erica Snipes Garner’s funeral
As the services concluded Michael Brown Sr., the father of Michael Brown, the teenager who was shot and killed by the police in Ferguson, Mo. in 2014, came on stage and embraced Eric Garner’s widow Esaw Garner.
For African-Americans, celebrity and politics has always mixed
Black celebrities of the 1930s and 1940s weren’t simply entertainers; they were living proof that African-Americans didn’t need to succumb to stereotypes
35 years of NJ restrictions on type GOP voter outreach ended
A U.S. District Court judge has ended 35 years of restrictions on Republican National Committee voter activities
Speech reveals Oprah Winfrey run for president is likely
The question isn’t will Oprah Winfrey run for president, but when. Electrified by her speech onstage at an unusually politicized Golden Globes, celebrities in the audience and fans watching from home were so ready to vote Oprah into the White House that a hashtag quickly gained momentum: #Oprah2020. Holding court in the VIP row of […]
The Long Road of American Black Women to Political Power
Black women must be recognized beyond the times they turn out to vote
Despite Minority Turnout, Scrutiny Over Alabama Voter ID Law
Poll workers were said to be thrown off by recently married women carrying photo IDs with names that didn’t match
In Alabama, black female voters prove they matter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Every election since she was 16, Catrena Norris Carter has gone door to door, urging black Alabama voters to the polls. In the months leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. Senate race, the community activist and a band of mostly black women registered college students to vote, waved signs on street corners and […]
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
The novel was selected for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club in 2016, was the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and, recently in April, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Bill Maher Learns When Political Satire Goes Too Far
Most racism today is not begotten of willful hatred, but rather ignorance of a historical kind