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Voter Demographics | Pew Research Center | October 2019
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Federal court is right to keep NC’s discriminatory voter ID requirement sidetracked | NC Policy Watch | January 2020
What US election officials could learn from Australia about boosting voter turnout | Salon.com | January 2020
Tell Me More: Why Minority Turnout Matter | Tufts Now | March 2019
The 2018 Midterm Vote: Divisions by Race, Gender, Education | Pew Research Center | November 2018
The Turnout Gap Between Whites and Racial Minorities is Larger than You Think — and Hard to Change |The Washington Post | September 2018
The Barriers that Keep Blacks and Latinos from Voting | The Atlantic | July 2018
Are Minority Voters Angry Enough to Come Off the Sidelines? | US News | July 2018
Harsh Drug And Immigration Policy Is Just Voter Suppression Disguised | HuffPost | March 2016
Yadira Baltier-MorenoState of Civil Rights Forum 2019 Criminal Justice System:Our Brown Brothers, Black sistersLocked upTalked downBlack and brownBack braidsBad gradesDates displacedHate crimesDrug offenses Black brothers, brown sistersSuicide rates highMy cousinsMy unclesDead in silenceViolence taken placeTheir face is a blurThe case dismissedPlea bargainTaken placeNo fleeCharge for lifeOne wordGUILTYWill be sentence to life Brown Brothers, Black sistersfamily…
Poverty/Racism After the Civil War, many whites including former slave owners left the South and settled in Oregon. As Mayor Wheeler noted in his State of the City speech, Oregon has a long history of racism. Oregon was the only state in the U.S. to ban black people. Let me say that again. Oregon was…
The LMV recently explored the meaning of “minority”. Those historically denied equal rights in the United States – racial minorities (specifically African Americans) and women are automatically designated minorities for the purpose of voting under the 14th and 19th Amendments. On the other hand, we must also explore what it means to be a minority…
