Voting Rights

This week Faith Callens joins StoryCorps to talk about her path to becoming a journalist, how she approaches storytelling in Selma, and her vision for the future of journalism.

State Senator Robert Stewart sits down at StoryCorps and talks with family friend Gwen Carrington. They discuss what it was like for her growing up in Selma during the civil rights movement and how they can help better the community.

The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall. The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court's conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act.

A Montgomery nonprofit is set to unveil a new mural in the city on Sunday related to Civil and Voter rights events. The ACLU of Alabama will also hold a voter engagement rally as part of its campaign to get more Alabamians registered to cast a ballot.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met Tuesday, Sept. 10 in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, debating on abortion, immigration and American democracy. The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that declared frozen embryos are children was also a talking point for both candidates.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the effective date of a new Alabama law that expands the list of felonies that would cause a person to lose their voting rights.

Alabama says a new state law expanding the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote won't be enforced until after the November election and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the effective date.

Mobile’s Mardi Gras Park was awash in red, white, and blue as the non-profit groups “Alabama Forward,” “Shake The Field,” “Transform Alabama” and others held a get-out-the-vote event ahead of the November election. The rally called “Democracy: Now Or Never,” came as Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly held one on interviews with the front runners to be her running mate against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

A voting rights group says a new Alabama law that expanded the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote is “out of step” with what is happening in most of the nation on voting rights.

A coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights organizations are suing Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama’s 42 District Attorneys and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to block Alabama’s recently enacted law that bans paid assistance with absentee ballot applications.