Release: Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics. The report examines minority voter turnout, racially polarized voting, policy outcomes by race, and… Continue reading

WaPo: African Americans have come a long way politically over the past half-century, but disparities remain. In the five decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, blacks have made significant strides in registering and turning out to vote,… Continue reading

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Read Ari Berman. Then you can preorder his book, “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”  

Looking forward to this. I’ll be talking about the Alabama redistricting case, awaiting decision at the Supreme Court. Regular blogging resumes on Monday.

States of Change The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060   The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation’s voting electorate in… Continue reading

Thank you. Nina Simone said it’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live. We wrote this song for a film that was based on events that were 50 years ago but we say that Selma is… Continue reading