How Black women will be especially affected by the loss of Roe Chelsea N. Jones and Christine M. Slaughter - June 14, 2022 With higher maternal mortality, more problem pregnancies, worse health care and less insurance, Black women especially need reproductive autonomy.
What the rise and fall of Jim Crow laws can teach today’s voting rights advocates Kimberley S. Johnson - March 23, 2021 White Southern leaders established one-party rule by sharply restricting who could vote — until Black civil rights advocates pushed the federal government into action
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act case could gut civil rights protections. Then what? Isaac Cui - March 15, 2021 State legislatures have introduced more than 250 bills to limit access to voting
What Nikki Haley gets wrong about the Confederate flag Thomas Ogorzalek, Spencer Piston, and Logan Strother - December 7, 2019 It was the fight against civil rights that brought the flag back.
What Cindy Hyde-Smith’s victory in Mississippi tells us about the South Seth McKee - November 29, 2018 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3606"] Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) celebrates her
This map will change how you think about American voters — especially small-town, heartland white voters Jonathan Rodden - October 31, 2016 In perhaps the most painful gaffe of his 2008 campaign,
Why is Hillary Clinton doing worse among whites now than in 2008? Racial attitudes. Michael Tesler - May 4, 2016 [caption id="attachment_37363" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
These two maps are incredibly revealing about who’s voting for Trump, and why. Jeremy Teigen and Brian Arbour - April 5, 2016 [caption id="attachment_37191" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Supporters gather to see Donald Trump
Republicans say goodbye to the Confederate flag–and hello to a new strategy Joseph Lowndes - June 24, 2015 [caption id="attachment_26439" align="alignnone" width="620" class="center"] File: Protesters hold a sign