Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. When the 2021-2022 session of the North Carolina General Assembly begins work, ...
HOUSTON — Voting wasn’t even an option for Black people and many other minorities in the United States until the 1963 March on Washington helped bring about radical change in this country Two years ...
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White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...