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Voting Rights
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...
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.
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...
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...
A federal judge Thursday closed the door on allegations that key parts of Florida's 2021 elections law were unconstitutional.
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,...
The Florida Senate president opposes changes to mail voting
Senate President Kathleen Passidomo on Tuesday voiced opposition Tuesday to a proposal that would scale back voting by mail.
A Senate Republican files a bill to take away the right to cast a mail ballot for many Floridians
Sen. Blaise Ingoglia has filed a bill that could lead to potentially far-reaching changes in voting by mail in Florida.
The Politics of Incarceration and Re-entry
Florida has an incarceration rate of 795 per 100.000 people including prisons, jails, immigration detention and juvenile justice. This means Florida locks up a higher percentage of it’s people than any democracy on earth. Many...
