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From left: D.C. Council members Vincent Gray, Trayon White, Charles Allen and Robert White on a panel discussing the restoration of voting rights for returning citizens at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center in southeast D.C. on Oct. 29. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Inmate Voting Rights Discussion Reaches Ward 8

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. October 30, 2019December 21, 2021

Tyrone Walker (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Council, Advocates Discuss Federal Inmate Voting Rights

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. October 16, 2019December 21, 2021

Robert White

D.C. Councilman Sponsors Bill to Give Felons the Vote

by James Wright Jr. June 5, 2019December 21, 2021

**FILE** A voter asks an election worker a question as she votes at Samuels Community Center in the presidential election in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Nov. 8, 2016. (Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images)

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Protection from Foreign Interference in Elections

by WI Guest Author May 15, 2019December 21, 2021

Election officials collect electronic voting machine memory cards following the Georgia primary runoff elections at a polling location in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Congress Traveling the Country to Hear Evidence of Voting Rights Violations

by WI Guest Author April 14, 2019October 31, 2020

A voter exits after casting her ballot at a polling place at Highland Colony Baptist Church, November 27, 2018, in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Voters in Mississippi head to the polls for today's special runoff election, where Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Espy is running in a close race with appointed Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS). (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Black Experience, National

Mississippi Must Redraw District Voting Lines, Appeals Court Rules

by WI Guest Author March 18, 2019October 31, 2020

Rosanell Eaton

Black Experience, Black History

Rosanell Eaton, Queen Mother of Voting Rights, Dies at 97

by WI Guest Author December 11, 2018October 31, 2020

D.C. Councilwoman Mary M. Cheh speaks as the council votes to confirm Peter J. Newsham as new chief of Metropolitan Police at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

D.C. Council Member Backs Paid Leave for Election Day

by WI Guest Author November 26, 2018October 31, 2020

Voters wait for their turn in one of the voting booths at Eleanor McMain School in New Orleans on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Deep South States Take Long-Overdue Step Out of Jim Crow Past

by WI Guest Author November 14, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of JOTF

D Kevin McNeir, Op-Ed, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Make America Like Monopoly — ‘Get Out of Jail’ Card Should Include the Restored Right to Vote

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor November 7, 2018October 31, 2020