Colin Kaepernick is facing backlash for refusing to vote in this election, but he was hardly alone.
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Is Black Early-Voting Turnout a Cause for Concern?
The first week of returns for North Carolina show that the conflict over voter suppression rages on.
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NAACP sues to stop voter roll purging in N.C.
Local elections boards in North Carolina are illegally removing thousands of voters from the rolls, and a disproportionate number of them are Black, the NAACP said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
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Trump’s ‘Voter Suppression Operation’ Targets Black Voters
Even as the Republican launches a purported African American outreach campaign 12 days before the election, his aides say their goal is to depress turnout in the bloc.
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Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
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