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Voting Rights

Florida primary elections, national decision

Voting is the aggregation of the collective opinion, the only one that counts.

Enough Is Enough: challenging backward politics

Annie advocates for college students to get registered to vote before leaving off to college.
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Voting rights groups say Florida should pay $3 million in legal fees and other costs

Groups say Florida should pay $3.2 million after the groups’ partially successful challenge to a 2021 elections law.
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Hillsborough sends out vote-by-mail ballots for primary election

If you live in Hillsborough County and plan on voting by mail for the 2024 primary election, you’ll get your ballot soon.  Around a dozen pallets full of ballots were mailed out Thursday. The county’s...

Critical Mobilization in the State

Central Avenue in the 1940s Tampa FL Anthony Perkins will be the Grand Marshal when the Omegas convene in Tampa for a Voter Registration 2024 “Conclave With a Purpose”. The Fraternity chose solidarity over boycott...

Voting With a Purpose

Jarvis Karim El-Amin stops in to announce an epic candidate forum, voter education and registration rally coming to the Tampa Bay Community. Expect sights of D.L. Hughley and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump. The Q...

Nicole Payne, Hillsborough District 4 Candidate

Nicole Payne, Hillsborough Black Chamber of Commerce President, talks the historic nature of  election participation and quality-of-life issues in Florida and the county. News updates and analysis. Listen in archives.
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Tennis champion Coco Gauff urges young Floridians to vote

Listen: Pro tennis star Coco Gauff is outspoken on social issues. She recently told the AP that it’s “a crazy time to be a Floridian, especially a Black one at that.” Gauff criticized book bans...
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A lawsuit over felon voting rights rules in Florida is dropped

Plaintiffs have dropped a lawsuit challenging how Florida carried out a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights of felons.

Madam President: Progress From Agitation in Black Tampa

Hillsborough County N.A.A.C.P. President, Yvette Lewis talk vision, reconciliation and a major event, ACT-SO: Afro-academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics. Lewis applaud progress on the race reconciliation Resolution 568 on Tampa city council and the...
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A federal judge ends the legal challenges to Florida’s 2021 elections law even though the legislature changed laws to “target” Black voters

A federal judge Thursday closed the door on allegations that key parts of Florida's 2021 elections law were unconstitutional.
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MLK Weekend: Human Rights, Civil Wrongs

Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King. She is emerging as a new orator for a new generation. The Forum explores new attacks on Civil and Voting Rights, diversity,...
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