Politics

Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, said the most troubling parts of SB 202 are the provisions diluting Georgia's secretary of state’s power and allowing local county boards to take over an election.

Legislation that could improve access to the ballot and strengthen democracy depends on whether the Senate can remove the filibuster, which has a history rooted in racism.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state's voter suppression bill into law while seated in front of a painting of a "back-breaking" plantation that "thrived" from slave labor.

Georgia police forcibly arrested Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon for peacefully and nonviolently protesting the governor signing a new law increasing voting restrictions expected to disproportionately affect Black people. 

Janey became the first woman and first Black person to lead the nearly 400-year-old city on Monday.

Barack Obama broke his silence on the recent string of mass shootings across American to address the most recent instance in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 people were killed, including a police officer, after a man opened fire in a grocery store.

Texas attorney general candidate S. Lee Merritt rose to prominence in part by representing families who lost loved ones as a result of high-profile police killings including Atatiana Jefferson in Fort Worth and Botham Jean in Dallas

A federal investigation is reportedly underway with Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, and her husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, at the center of the probe.

The suspect in the deadly shooting spree at Asian massage parlors near Atlanta was able to buy the gun he used to kill eight people quicker than it takes for average Georgia residents to register to vote.

As pressure mounts for Andrew Cuomo to resign over dueling scandals, New York's Democratic governor seemed to follow an age-old political playbook by seeing refuge with Black leaders ready to defend him.