Human Rights

October 28, 2008 - It's a classic voter-suppression strategy: send out misinformation to voters about the day of the election.

October 28, 2008 - Federal agents have broken up a plot allegedly hatched by two neo-Nazi skinheads from Tennessee and Arkansas to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports.

October 27, 2008 - Some pundits would like to see the Voting Rights Act done away with -- particularly its provisions mandating special oversight of most Southern states because of their history of racially motivated vote

October 24, 2008 - The federal appeals court in Atlanta today stayed the execution of Troy Davis, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Monday evening.

October 24, 2008 - Will this be "The Year of the Black Voter?"

October 24, 2008 - A settlement reached this week will allow a minister to continue registering eligible voters currently incarcerated in Alabama's prisons.

October 21, 2008 - California is seeing a slew of gay couples rushing to get marriage licenses this month, a movement that is only expected to accelerate over the next three weeks.

October 20, 2008 - Yesterday, Barack Obama held a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

October 17, 2008 - The Associated Press is reporting that the NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the country where there has been a history of voter discrimination on Nov. 4, with plans to address complaints about possible voter disenfranchisement wherever they are made.

October 10, 2008 - Public Policy Polling has an interesting new study out that bucks the media storyline about why Barack Obama is making gains in Southern states like Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.