BLANKOct 13, 2013
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and a separate ruling tossing out Arizona’s “proof of citizenship” law, Arizona and Kansas have adopted separate voter registration systems for federal and state/local elections, the latter requiring proof of citizenship. Look at it as Jim Crow 2.0. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 23, 2013
The covering over a painting of a slave performing fellatio on a white man has been removed at the Newark Public Library after much controversy; foreign universities are struggling to compete with elite American ones in the online education market; meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the National Counterterrorism Center has been given massive amounts of authority to surveil Americans via datasets. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 21, 2012
In an urgent and informed discussion on race relations spanning America’s early history to the stop-and-frisk policies of the present, author, historian and New York Public Library research director Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells Bill Moyers how the nation’s laws were written to control black Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigMay 1, 2012
Republicans are waging the most concerted campaign to prevent or discourage citizens from exercising their legitimate voting rights since the Jim Crow days of poll taxes and literacy tests. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 24, 2011
At a time of record unemployment, American companies are increasingly exploiting the low-cost labor of 23 million Americans behind bars This means fewer jobs available for free citizens, which leads to more unemployment, which produces more crime (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 28, 2011
The growing participation of minority voters, and especially their tendency to vote Democratic, has sent Republicans in the Florida Legislature scrambling to come up with a way to shut them out of the democratic process. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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