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Democracy Diminished: LDF Releases Report on State and Local Threats to Voting Rights Three Years After Landmark Shelby County Decision

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama

A Tribute to Harry Briggs Jr., One of the Children at the Center of Brown v. Board of Education

8/19/16

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Landmark: Brown v. Board of Education
Leah Aden in Fusion: Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Are Part of History of Excluding People of Color from Political Process

8/19/16

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Fusion

These people had their voting rights restored and then yanked away again

Leah Aden, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, says that after 2008, people of color participated in the electoral process in record numbers; black and brown voters in most age groups vote Democrat. This may influence why some legislators don’t have the appetite for supporting restoration laws, Aden says.
Deuel Ross in NYT: Resurgent Local Voter Discrimination Impacts Lives of Minority Voters

8/18/16

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New York Times

Voting Rights Success? Not So Fast
Baltimore Sun Editorial Echoes Questions Raised by LDF Over Korryn Gaines Shooting

8/16/16

Source:
The Baltimore Sun

The Questions Raised by Gaines' death
LDF Asks Baltimore County Police Department Critical Questions About Shooting Death of Korryn Gaines

8/15/16

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Policing Reform Campaign