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Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when voters can cast their ballots. She doesn’t know who the bad actors are. But whenever she sees one of these signs — […] The post ‘New Literacy Test’: The Black Organizers Waging War on Disinformation appeared first on Capital B News.

What is literacy? Progressive Baptist Church on the South Side is helping Black boys get ahead by improving their reading skills.

The Ministry of Education and Youth has revised its national summer school programme to what is now called the National Summer Academy 2023. This is part of the Ministry's effort to provide extended learning opportunities for students...

A literacy test and find three white people who would vouch for him so that he could register to vote. both her father and her grandfather had to pay a poll tax in order to cast their ballots and. jennifer mcclellans mother did not vote until after the passing of the voting rights act of 1965. it is with that history behind her that mcclellan has turned into page for the state of virginia. and by the way, she defeated her republican opponent by a staggering margin of nearly 50 points. joining us...

Generations ago my clones great-grandfather, an emancipated slave, had to take a literacy test to find three white people who would vote for him so that he could register to vote. both her grandfather into her father had to pay a poll tax in order to cast their ballots. and mclellands own mother, now 90, did not vote until after the passing of the voting rights act of 1965. it is with that history behind her that mcclellan has turned a new page for the state of virginia. and by the way, she defe...

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Virginia, reproductive act, clean economy act. i will bring the same passion for helping people in solving problems to congress. and i will make history as the first black woman, as you mentioned. that is a perspective that is a long overdue, being had in our delegation. >> we will talk more about. that i was going to end on that question, but it is extraordinary that a black woman has never been elected to congress from virginia. so talk about what that would mean to you? >> first of all, as so...

People democratic party the party of slavery, kkk. poll tax and literacy test and now party of it dem covid. they are perpetuate victimhood among people of my complex claiming we cant vote. we had the highest voter turnout in history by the most legitimate election according to the democratic party but somehow voting rights are in jeopardy. they cant produce one person who hasnt been able to voted. this is the same party of limitless abortion. that celebrates it as reproductive justice. there is...

Something as simple as equal access to the voting booth. lewis suffered a cracked skull on that day, which became known as bloody sunday. lewis spoke about the struggle during his address to the democratic convention in 2012. >> not too long ago people stood in unmovable lines. they had to pass a so-called literacy test. pay a poll tax. on one occasion a man was asked to tap the number in a bar of soap. on another occasion, one was asked to count the jellybeans in a jar, all to keep them from ca...

Action. >> it was the 31st of august in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met in indianola by policeman, highway patrolman, and they allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. after we had taken this test and started back, we was held up by the city police and the state highway patrolman and carried back to indianola, where the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the...