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On Wednesday, Jan. 10, supporters of the N.C. NAACP came from all across the state to rally at the N.C. General Assembly to protest why they believe the state legislature
To many legal experts, it’s hard to believe that Republican legislative leaders deliberately redrew new voting maps for the state House and Senate – as ordered by a three-judge federal court – without incorporating race as one of the nine criteria guiding the process. After all, it was the abusive, and according to the US Supreme Court, illegal use of race by Republican mapmakers in drawing the 2011 redistricting plan that earned the ire of the federal court – namely the stacking and packing of black voters into 28 of 170 districts across the state in order to severely weaken their influence in legislative races, thus giving the GOP super-majorities in both houses.
What kind of legislative voting district maps will the Republican leadership of the N.C. General Assembly?
By William Reed On any level you examine, President Donald Trump’s outreach to blacks is an unenlightened mess. Trump’s appointment of
Noting that the N.C. Republican legislative leadership is “dragging their feet” about doing anything that would fairly represent voters when
By Johnny C. Taylor Jr. As the president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), I’m spending a
