Today’s ruling from a federal district judge confirms what we’ve known all along: Florida Senate Bill 90 is a complete violation of Black voting rights. Since the bill became law last year, we warned that restricting access to mail-in ballots and drop boxes, banning volunteer assistance, issuing deceptive registration warnings, and stopping food and water distribution in voting lines would have an outsized impact on Black communities. We were so [...]

The historic bill signing of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act is a testament to the power and perseverance of Black advocates. For more than 100 years, Black people have fought to make lynching – one of the nation’s most hideous traditions – a federal crime. But time and time again, these bills faced steep opposition from racist, white supremacist lawmakers; the United States legislatures has blocked federal antilynching bills more [...]

We are watching racism play out in front of our very eyes. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a perfectly qualified and highly regarded jurist on the brink of making history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. But as Judge Brown Jackson sits through a second day of Senate questioning, Senate Republicans have turned her confirmation hearings into political theater with racist, baseless attacks. There were even occasions [...]