There are 2 article(s) tagged voter suppression:

• March 2021

  • Opinion: Legislative roadblocks to voting are reminders of our shameful past

    Voter suppression is very much alive and well in 2021. The cruel violence that once accompanied it has been replaced by underhanded legislative tactics at various statehouses controlled by Republicans.

    By Otis Sanford March 11, 2021

• November 2018

  • Suppression in disguise: What we can learn from 1960s Fayette County, Tennessee

    “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Shelby County v. Holder, a landmark decision that overturned a key provision of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and ended the enforcement of federal oversight of voting practices in states that have historically disenfranchised minority voters.

    By Nathaniel C. Ball November 09, 2018