The Supreme Court Just Gutted the Voting Law That Proved Political Power Pays
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais to make it harder to challenge biased voting maps. States across the South can now redraw boundaries that shrink Black voters’ power in Congress, in school boards, and in the local bodies that control public jobs and road money.
Deed Theft Robbed 1,500 Brooklyn Families of Their Homes. Black Homeowners Are Fighting Back.
Complaints of deed theft in New York City rose nearly 300 percent between 2023 and 2025. On April 24, 2026, the city launched the country’s first municipal Office of Deed Theft Prevention. The threat it was created to address extends well beyond New York.
Missouri Is Offering Its 2 HBCUs a New Funding Lifeline. The Same Legislature Is Also Moving to Cut Their Budgets by Millions.
House Bill 3416 would redirect roughly $6.6 million annually from casino proceeds and lottery funds to Lincoln University and Harris-Stowe State University, two institutions that face simultaneous threats of deeper state funding cuts under a separate spending proposal moving through the same legislature.
