Elections
Pathways to Participation: Ensuring Voting Access for HBCUs
This brief offers a comprehensive examination of how transportation access impacts voter participation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The author also presents practical recommendations for transportation planners and policymakers to enhance multimodal access with the goal of promoting equitable voting access.
Project 2025 Fact Sheet
Learn about Project 2025’s impact on education, criminal justice, civil rights, healthcare, and much more.
2024 Voting Rights Toolkit
Preserve, protect, and defend the right to vote for all American citizens.
Fact Sheet: A Tale of 10 Black Cities
This fact sheet depicts the power of the Black vote in the U.S. cities with the largest Black population, voter engagement in the 2020 election, and an Informed Voter Toolkit with information about new voting and election laws and other voting resources.
Voting Rights on Trial: The Future of Redistricting and Representation in the U.S.
This policy brief assesses the current voting rights landscape and provides a contextual overview of the events that have led to the current voting rights crisis and the consequences for Black Americans.
Op-Ed: Safeguarding Our Democracy
Most Americans believe in democracy as shown in our recent midterms, particularly younger generations. However, we are amid rhetoric that features violent undertones, electoral denials, and a flurry of unreliable information.
Examining Representation and Citizen Advocacy at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
In many ways, the 2016 U.S. presidential nomination cycle – the period beginning with the primary and caucus contests and ending once the nominating conventions conclude – challenged conventional thinking […]
Voting Rights Toolkit
On November 8, 2016, the United States will host the first presidential election in 51 years not covered by the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, namely without Section […]