Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...
North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...
Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...
North Carolina's most powerful senator expressed interest on Tuesday in deleting a voter literacy test provision from the state constitution — a relic from the Jim Crow era that while unenforceable ...
White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...
Two years ago, local politicians, business executives, educators and nonprofit organizations banded together in an unprecedented push to improve literacy among San Antonio children. The goal: Make ...
Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...
AS CHILDREN RETURN TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN MARYLAND, THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE POLICY ON LITERACY IS STILL UNDERGOING CHANGES. THIS FOCUS ON LITERACY IS TOP LINE PRIORITY FOR US AS WE AS WE LOOK TO TRULY ...