by MCDC | Aug 21, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Discrimination, Issues
“We have a new demographic emerging that is changing the South,” explains Barber, who received his bachelor’s degree in political science from North Carolina Central University, a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University and a doctorate from Drew University with...
by MCDC | Aug 7, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Virginia
Nearly 214,000 people have been placed back on the state’s prohibited voter list, weeks ahead of the Aug. 25 deadline set by the court. The 13,000 felons whose voter registrations have been canceled will receive letters early next week, according to the Virginia...
by MCDC | Aug 5, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Voter Rights
Congress has refused to do anything to restore the law’s protections, so litigation has remained the only real recourse for advocates trying to stop these voter suppression tactics more and more state legislatures have been adopting. In Virginia, a three-judge federal...
by MCDC | Jul 24, 2016 | Discrimination, Education, Poverty, Racism
Disparities in education begin at an early age and we as a society need to make a commitment to fund our schools equitably so all students have a chance to...
by MCDC | Jul 23, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights
“I will expeditiously sign nearly 13,000 individual orders to restore the fundamental rights of the citizens who have had their rights restored and registered to vote. And I will continue to sign orders until I have completed restoration for all 200,000...
by MCDC | Jun 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Voter Rights
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
