Quality Journalism for Critical Times One month after a federal court upheld Gov. Ron DeSantis’ erasure of a Black-held congressional district in North Florida, voting-rights groups have asked the court to reconsider in light of the discriminatory intent the judges suggested the governor might hold. A three-judge panel sitting in the federal Northern District of Florida ruled on March 28 […] The post U.S. court asked to reconsider ruling upholding DeSantis’ quashing of Black congressional seat a
Quality Journalism for Critical Times For more than three decades, Cynthia Slater has helped Black Floridians register to vote, she testified Thursday morning. But the Florida NAACP’s civic engagement chair stopped organizing voter registration drives because of restrictions imposed under a 2023 law. Before Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 7050 last year, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP had […] The post FL NAACP stopped voter registration drives amid legal challenge to election law, leader