BLACK WOMEN AND VOTER SUPPRESSION

Black women who are eligible to vote do so at consistently high rates during elections in the United States. For thousands of Black women, however, racism, sexism, and criminal convictions intersect to require them to navigate a maze of laws and policies that keep them from voting. With the alarming...

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Ballots
Bans
Black people
Black women
Case studies
Civil law
Convictions
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Criminal liability
Democracy
Elections
Gender
Imprisonment
Intersectionality
Race
Racism
Sexism
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Voting rights
Womens rights
Womens suffrage
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