A Tennessee judge has ruled that four people can’t be denied their voting rights because their specific felony offenses bar ...
About 9 percent of the state’s voting-age population is prohibited from voting because of felony convictions. And the effects are particularly acute among the Black population, with an astonishing 21 ...
The November elections will be the first true tests of the new districts drawn following the 2020 U.S. Census, said Kent ...
With fewer than 50 days until the Nov. 5 election, the Tennessee Secretary of State's office is encouraging all Tennesseans ...
But WDIA was not owned by a Black person. That happened just one year later in 1949 when Jesse Blayton, an accountant, bank president and Atlanta University professor, bought WERD in Atlanta, making ...