When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?

The 15th Amendment was supposed to guarantee Black men the right to vote, but exercising that right became another challenge.

When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?

Washington, D.C. | U.S.A. – Aug 28, 2021: March On for Voting Rights “Protect Voting Rights” (Shutterstock) By Sarah Pruitt, History In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the United States found itself in uncharted territory. With the Confederacy’s defeat, some 4 million enslaved Black men, women and children had been granted their freedom, […]

Chairman of Jan. 6 Committee Spent His Career Protecting Voting Rights

Representative Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, has spent his career fighting to protect the right to vote.

Chairman of Jan. 6 Committee Spent His Career Protecting Voting Rights

By Richard Fausset and Luke Broadwater, NY Times BOLTON, Miss.— It was here, in this majority-Black town of 441 people, that Representative Bennie G. Thompson attended a segregated junior high school. It was where his father spent a lifetime working as a mechanic and paying taxes, but never enjoying the right to vote. And it […]

The 2020 Census Had Big Undercounts of Black People, Latinos and Native Americans

The 2020 Census Had Big Undercounts of Black People, Latinos and Native Americans

New York, NY – September 22, 2020: Census 2020 employees seen at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem during Census Drive. (Shutterstock) By Hansi Lo Wang, NPR The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a […]