Palm Beach Circuit Judge Paul Moyle has ruled (Sept. 15) that a “sagging pants” ordinance in Riviera Beach, Fla., was unconstitutional after a 17-year-old was arrested and held overnight in jail...
Al Sharpton likes to say from time to time that Democrats treat black voters as if we are their mistress. Party officials don’t mind seeing us at night, but shy away from stepping out with us during daylight. The same can be said for some black politicians who shy away from associating with Sharpton...
NEW YORK – A report released Wednesday (Oct. 1) by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law reveals widespread misunderstanding among state elections officials of laws governing the right to vote of citizens with felony convictions. A second ACLU report, also released today, finds that voter registration forms in states across the country fail to clearly explain the eligibility of voters with criminal records. Both reports highlight widespread problems that endanger the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of eligible voters nationally in a presidential election year...
It is a startling revelation, because Obama, whose father was a native of Kenya and whose mother was a white woman from Kansas, doesn’t mention his race very often. He hasn’t had to announce it to the world, or stress it in his campaign literature...
Special to the Tri-State Defender by Kavita Pillai
“Change” might be a national buzzword, but it doesn’t start — or end — with a presidential campaign. And a new grassroots group has formed to remind voters that all politics is local.
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