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Voter Suppression



  • What Jim Crow looks like in 2021

    by Nicole Hemmer

    The most relevant aspect of Jim Crow today isn't the Klan, but the "color blind" legislation that Southern conservatives used to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment. 



  • Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show

    by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

    Avoiding the subject of the racist and sexist constraints on American politics ensures those limitations can derail democracy again. 



  • Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence

    by Jelani Cobb

    A weather forecast is not a prediction of the inevitable. We are not doomed to witness a catastrophic tempest this fall, but anyone who is paying attention knows that the winds have begun to pick up. 



  • Historian Carol Anderson On Voter Suppression

    “This kind of silent, quiet bureaucratic violence, where policies are wiping out the voting rights of millions of Americans, that's the piece that is absolutely stunning for my students,” she explained.