North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...
WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...
Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to the rights ...