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

Marc Selverstone in WaPo: These conversations show that Johnson encouraged King to focus media attention on voting-rights injustices, leaned hard on aides to seek legal and legislative remedies for those wrongs, and acknowledged the importance of the Selma events —… Continue reading

The court rejected the plans submitted by both the City and FairVote, going with the plaintiffs’ preferred single-member district plan to resolve Latino vote dilution claims.  

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Press release: U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Alabama Law Review symposium as it marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at noon Feb. 27 at The University of Alabama… Continue reading