All posts tagged "Jim Crow"

The United States Supreme Court, on Friday, decided not to hear a case against a longtime Mississippi rule denying the right to vote to persons "convicted of certain felonies," CNN reports.

Per the report, and according to critics, the state rule disproportionately impact Black voters.

According to NBC, "The court's decision not to hear the case prompted a sharp dissenting opinion from liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor," who "contrasted the decision on Friday with the court's ruling a day earlier that" ended affirmative action....

North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber on Monday confronted the man who he says is responsible for pushing policies that have been devastating poor and minority communities in the state.

An AFL-CIO report released Thursday determined that a recent immigration law "hearkens Alabama back to the bleakest days of the state’s racial history."