Over one million former felons in Florida were given their right to vote back in the 2018 midterm election. This was exciting news and thousands rushed to register to vote. But, now it’ll be a little harder for them to exercise that right. Florida has passed a bill stating that in order to register to […]

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The normally humdrum bureaucracy of registering to vote brought tears to the eyes of some Floridians on Tuesday when most felons regained their right to vote under a state constitutional amendment. “I’ll be a human being again. I’ll be an American citizen again,” Robert Eckford said, choking up and weeping after […]

While many folks were unhappy about the outcome of Florida’s Gubernatorial race, we did win something pretty big. Desmond Meade and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition got Amendment 4 on the ballot, which restored voting rights to convicted felons who have completed their sentence. The amendment passed with 65% and now they’re fighting to get […]

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Good Morning Everybody! As you already know, the upcoming midterm elections may very well be the most important and consequential of our lifetime. I know it seems like somebody says that for every single election, and maybe it was true then, I don’t know, but I’m positive that it’s true now. In 4 weeks, the […]

There are several states that revoke a persons right to vote after a felony conviction. Florida is one of those states, and according to Judith Browne Dianis its laws are in place to silence black voices. Dianis tells Roland Martin that The Advancement Project is working to restore voting rights to convicted felons. Because, “if you lack […]

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A Democratic political group launched a legal campaign Wednesday to create additional majority-minority congressional districts in three Southern states, claiming the current maps discriminate against black voters. Attorneys filed separate federal lawsuits in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, challenging congressional maps lawmakers in each state approved in 2011. The lawsuits filed on behalf of several black […]

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Republican lawmakers got a green light to suppress votes after a Supreme Court ruling.

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A Twitter user named Kenny Okwara posted a video of his mom making an impassioned plea to get out the vote.

  9/28/16- Roland Martin talks to Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP, to talk about the importance of voting and why it’s known as the 21st Century Alabama. “We have 111 AA HBCUs in North Carolina. We’ve won and fought them and beat them on voters suppression. When somebody tries to take […]

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Nick Cannon says he won’t step foot into a voting booth this November…unless a certain miracle can take place across America.   “I ain’t voting until black lives matter,” he told Howard Stern on Monday, adding, “There’s a segment of the community that actually don’t care about voting because they’re too concerned with staying alive.” […]

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President Obama put his knowledge of “Game of Thrones” to the test in an attempt to get people to vote this November. In a new voting PSA produced by Buzzfeed, the commander-in-chief is asked to recall all the characters who have died on the HBO series over the past six seasons. The title of the […]