September 24, 2026 – Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has reintroduced the Youth Voting Rights Act of 2026, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment and expand youth access to voting.
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Black News Sep 24, 2026On the ballot this November: Automatic restoration of voting rights
Sam Harris, a 56-year-old from Suffolk, will vote for the first time this November.
Black News Sep 23, 2026White Nationalist Activity Tracker — September 23, 2026
0 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.
AT&T and Black America Sep 23, 2026AT&T and Black America, Part 6: The Largest Employment-Discrimination Settlement in U.S. History
The federal government filed its lawsuit against AT&T and its consent decree resolving that lawsuit on the same day — January 18, 1973 — because the settlement had already been negotiated before the case was ever formally filed. Part 6 of a 12-part series, covering 1970 to 1973.
Black News Sep 23, 2026Nolan Wells Update: No Indictment, Autopsy Questions, and What Happens Next
A grand jury declined to indict anyone in Nolan Wells’ death. His family is seeking answers about his injuries, further forensic work, and an independent federal review.
Black News Sep 23, 2026Lil Durk Posted a Malcolm X Quote That Malcolm X Never Said — and Anyone Can Check
Twelve days after his acquittal, Lil Durk posted a photo of Malcolm X with an inspirational quote beside it. There is no record of Malcolm X saying those words. The archives that would settle it are free, public, and searchable.
AT&T and Black America Sep 22, 2026AT&T and Black America, Part 5: Title VII Passes, But the EEOC Can’t Enforce It Yet
For nearly a century, the exclusion this series has documented was legal — a company or a union could refuse to hire someone because of race and face no federal employment-discrimination law at all. Part 5 of a 12-part series, covering 1964 to 1970.
AT&T and Black America Sep 21, 2026AT&T and Black America, Part 4: A Radio Confession, and a 21-Year Wait
A Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company official told a Washington, D.C. radio audience, on the record, that the company would not hire Black operators until the city’s schools were integrated — and it would take, in his own estimate, two or three more generations. Part 4 of a 12-part series, covering 1952 to 1974.