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The article examines how African American voting rights were undermined by the three-word phrase "or other crime" in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Topics discussed include how antislavery Republicans left a loophole that took away African Americans' right to vote, the role of white supremacists in North Carolina in weaponizing the 14th Amendment against African Americans, and how the phrase can be reconstructed.

Comments on a number of developments in politics in the United States. Dismissal of Scott Nearing by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and its positive impact for the cause of academic freedom; Argument that the worst servant of a democracy is the man who obeys the people because he fears them; "Grandfather" clauses whereby the Southern states prevent African Americans from voting, as a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment; Letter by Henry L. Stimson in the New York Times in which he opposes suffrage for women.

This article presents information on political and social issues of several nations. U.S. President Andrew Johnson, has delivered himself to a "distinguished senator" on the subject of Afro-American suffrage in the District of Columbia, as well as upon the proposed amendments to the Constitution changing the basis of representation. If his remarks upon the attempt to establish Afro-American suffrage in the District be correctly reported, he will probably veto the bill. There is rumor of an alliance between Austria and France, which it is said Austria greatly desires, that she may be the better able to carry out her plans for internal reconstruction, and at the same time oppose an added force to the pretensions of Prussia. A good illustration of the difficulty of protecting the public against corporations by any system of inspection, has just been afforded in the case of the Columbian Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. This company suspended payment about ten days ago, to the consternation of its stockholders and creditors-but without surprising many people actually engaged in the insurance business.

This article discusses the Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. constitution with respect to the right of African-Americans to vote. In the current debate over methods of assuring that the African-Americans in the South of the U.S. have the right to vote, very little attention has been paid to Section 2 of-the Fourteenth Amendment of the constitution. For many years major interest in this Amendment has focused on Section 1, which prohibits the states from denying to any person due process of law or equal protection of the laws. Not many people are aware that those who framed and adopted the Fourteenth Amendment viewed Section 2, rather than Section 1, as its most important provision.

An interview with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is presented on how he makes decisions influencing the country without neglecting the African American community. Topics covered include the efforts of Holder's group to protect the right of African Americans to vote, his thoughts on Stand Your Ground laws, and how the Fair Sentencing Act is helping African Americans charged with drug possession as of September 2014.

The article discusses how the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, considered the most successful civil rights law in American history, has helped some African Americans, such as Senator Barack Obama, succeed in politics. It also explores how the law explains the discrepancy between the percentage of blacks elected in legislative districts and the percentage elected to the highest state offices across the U.S.

Discusses the history of the voting rights of African Americans in the U.S. Significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to African Americans; Prevalence of African American political activism in the beginning of 1965; Perception of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the significance of voting rights to racial advancement; Initiatives of NAACP to urge the implementation of the voting rights of African Americans.

Focuses on the significance of the demonstrations held in Selma, Alabama in 1965 by African American civil rights activists. Action taken by law enforcement officers to prevent the March 7 demonstration; Role of Southern Christian Leadership Conference activist Amelia Boynton Robinson in the promotion of rights to vote by African American individuals; Progress in the status of African American individuals following the demonstrations.

Provides information on the U.S. Supreme Court. Design of the marble mausoleum that houses the Court; Background on its rulings in three chief areas: African American rights in general and school integration in particular, voting rights and crime and police methods; Profile of U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Comments on the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on elections and electoral rights in the U.S. Key stipulations of the law that allowed African Americans to vote; Historical background on obstacles erected in southern U.S. states that kept African Americans from voting; Implications on American politics and government.

Brown v. Board of Education is justly recognized as one of the U.S. Supreme Court's finest moments. In the case the Court expressed a sweeping vision of racial equality. But when people celebrates Brown, one need to remember that the Supreme Court is not always the special champion of African Americans. Indeed, if history is any guide, the Court is as likely to choke off an American Reconstruction as to precipitate one. Last year in Shaw v. Reno the High Court cast an ominous shadow over the centerpiece of the Second Reconstruction, the Voting Rights Act, which after nearly thirty years had finally begun to integrate the political process. The Voting Rights Act is unquestionably the most successful civil rights statute in American history.

Focuses on the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act in the U.S. in 2005. Historical significance of the act; Relevance of the act to African Americans; Provisions of the act that will expire in 2007.

This article profiles math teacher and former civil rights activist Robert Moses. Moses travelled to the South 44 years ago as a field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, where he risked his life in order to help register blacks to vote. He also planned what became known as the Freedom Summer, an event in which white Northerners and university students went to Mississippi to register rural black voters. Today, Moses teaches classes in trigonometry and introductory engineering at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi.

The author discusses her perspectives with respect to voter identification (ID) laws. She cites research showing that African Americans, Latinos, and low income Americans will be blocked from voting due to strict voter identification requirements like in Wisconsin where 20% of Wisconsinites such as elderly persons, African American men and women and Hispanic men do not have the necessary ID. She notes that pro-ID advocates are misleading and misstating the rationale for these laws.

The article presents information on various developments related to the U.S. politics and government in 1940. It is noted that several people in the U.S. did not want the government to support England in fighting German dictator Adolf Hitler. A group of African American businessmen in San Antonio, Texas wanted to join the Democratic Party claiming they can be effective voters only if they could participate in the government. Political candidate Gracie Allen called off her presidential campaign saying that she considered the right to vote a privilege.

Focuses on the support of U.S. citizens for the restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated people who have served their sentences. Stance of the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties on the issue; Differences among state laws regarding the right to vote; Implications of the problem for African American voters.