James Jerome Hankins is a journalist, realtor, Veteran, past local NAACP president, retired 34-year shop teacher and 1971 graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. This week, he discusses lessons that can be learned from the past.
Tag: Voting Rights Act
Posted inPolitics
High court upholds South Carolina redistricting, displacing Black voters
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated South Carolina’s redrawn congressional map, ruling that it was not unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, despite a lower court’s finding that it had illegally removed 30,000 Black voters to favor a White Republican candidate.
Posted inBaltimore News
NAACP, ACLU file lawsuit alleging suppression of Black political power in Wicomico County
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, Special to the AFRO The historic practice of suppressing Black voting power on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is facing yet another legal challenge in the form of a federal civil rights lawsuit. The ACLU of Maryland and the Wicomico County NAACP filed a federal suit this week accusing the county […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Black voting power gets boost in Alabama as new US House districts are chosen by federal judges
By Kim Chandler, The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges on Oct. 5 selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The new map sets the stage for potentially flipping one U.S. House of Representatives seat […]