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Florida GOP undermines Black voters, leveraging power politics at a high price
Students traveled together to attend Florida A&M University’s Spring Preview 2026, where they experienced firsthand the culture, pride, and opportunity that define the historic institution. For many, it was their first time stepping onto a college campus of this scale. For others, it solidified a dream that had already begun to take root.
Local Black farmers in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, one of the state’s largest Black American farming hubs, say they are being pushed out of their jobs by white South African farmworkers.
UPDATE (Friday, May 1): Israel and Max Makoka were released from ICE custody on Thursday (April 30), according to their host mother, who spoke with WAPT News Jackson.
Florida students will once again be required to learn cursive writing in elementary school under a sweeping new education law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.
America is often introduced to us through poetry and song: amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties, a nation crowned with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. It is a beautiful image. Yet for many whose history has been shaped by struggle and survival, a quiet question remains: beautiful for whom?
The Voting Rights Act, which has long been situated as “one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history,” outlawed literacy tests and provided for the appointment of federal examiners (with the power to register qualified citizens to vote) in those jurisdictions that were “covered” according to a formula provided in the statute. Section 5 required designated areas to get federal approval before changing voting practices, and Section 2 mirrored the 15th Amendment (1870), banning the denial of voting rights based on race or color. Although the 24th Amendment (1964) ended poll taxes in national elections, the Voting Rights Act gave the Attorney General the authority to challenge their use in state and local elections, with the goal of ending Jim Crow’s discriminatory hold on Southern politics.