Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

Two years ago, Drew Kromer was elected chair of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party. He pledged to increase voter turnout ...

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New Interactive Card Game Aims to Boost Youth Voter Education Campaign MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law ...

While research from the 1990s on minority-opportunity districts did not find consistent turnout effects, more recent analysis from 2016 takes advantage of larger datasets (like state voter ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights activists seeking to peacefully march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand equal access to the ballot were brutally assaulted by police. The events of what became ...

Nick Smith • Special to the Independent Like many Colorado Springs residents, 23-year-old Xavier Ayala hasn’t voted in April’s local elections. Mainly, they just haven’t been on his radar. This year, ...

Discover how organizations like Black Women Unmuted, ColorComm, and African Women in Media are supporting Black women ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Wisconsin's April 1 election includes a high-stakes Supreme Court race and plenty of local offices, but a statewide ...

A new survey reveals that a majority of Black respondents want Democrats to prioritize defending attacks on DEI.