Monday, May 28, 2012

"Congressional Black Caucus rallies preachers to tackle voter-ID laws"

 "The NAACP and President Ben Jealous have launched what it says will be its biggest ever push to register voters ahead of the 2012 election." | Rerinhold Matay/AP
William Douglas (McClatchy Newspapers):
African-American churches, historically at the forefront of the nation’s civil and voting rights efforts, are grappling this election year with how to navigate through the wave of new voting-access laws approved in many Republican-controlled states, laws that many African-Americans believe were implemented to suppress the votes of minorities and others.MORE...

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