By Lee A. Daniels
If, by one definition, politics is the art of compromise, many of those running for office in this election aren’t politicians.

By TaRessa Stovall
Voting is the foundation of our democracy, but barriers to this fundamental right—including burdensome, government-issued photo identification requirements, the elimination of voter names from rolls, and even blatant misinformation—disenfranchise thousands of minority voters each election cycle.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund will argue in an appeals court in San Francisco today that the state of Washington’s denial of voting rights to convicted felons is rooted in discrimination. By John Payton The most fundamental political right in our society is the right to vote. Today (Sept. 21) the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) congratulates the New York State Senate for passing legislation to end prison-based gerrymandering in New York.

By Janet Singleton
For me to have the opportunity to vote for the sort of person, as president of my nation, that I would aspire to be is even more miraculous than the racial breakthrough it represented. No Irshad, I voted for the President not because he is my color but because he is my kind, if only in my aspirations.

By Manning Marable
Early on in their deliberation process, the Obama pre-campaign group recognized that most white Americans would never vote for a black Presidential candidate. However, they were convinced that most whites would embrace, and vote for, a remarkable, qualified Presidential candidate who happened to be black.

By Lee A. Daniels
Will they or won’t they?

That question about the black vote—about whether black voters would show up at the polls on election day—hung over the bitter final months of last year’s presidential campaign like a looming thunder cloud.

The answer was resounding, of course, and now, thanks to recent reports by the Census Bureau and the Pew Research Center and the Pew Hispanic Center, we have a wealth of data to quantify just how historic for black America and America November 4, 2008 was.

By The Editors
The Court issued a ruling Monday in Bartlett v Strickland, a case involving an interpretation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”). Section 2, which prohibits vote dilution and other voting discrimination on account of race, is designed to ensure enforcement of the 15^th Amendment.

By Stacey Patton: I’m 30 years-old and on November 4th, 2008 I cast a vote for president for the first time in my life. Before then, voting didn’t seem worth it.  I fit the stereotype of Generation X – apathetic, disconnected from politics, and devoid of respect for history. It turns out, all I needed [...]