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Tag Archives: vote

LOSERS, WEEPERS

November 7, 2016by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

I hope you are ready for the election to end!  One more day until sanity returns, although I don’t believe sanity will be the result of this election regardless of […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, Voting Rights

Come One, Come All

September 12, 2015by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

Please join me at a voter registration event in Charleston, South Carolina.  This is a bipartisan event and all political candidates are welcome. Location: The College of Charleston, Robert Scott […]

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Life in these United States, Voting Rights

Harvard Students Flunk Black Literacy Test

November 13, 2014by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

I have heard of the literacy tests black adults used to have to take to register to vote.  I have rarely seen one.  I think this piece of history is […]

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African American History, Civil Rights, U.S. History, Voting Rights

An Excerpt from YOU CAME HERE TO DIE, DIDN’T YOU

November 1, 2014by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

  An ex-student of mine wrote me, “I’m an American . . . I have the freedom to not give a crap enough to vote, and the right to complain […]

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Civil Rights, Voting Rights

We Need Another Civil Rights Act of 1965 – For Everyone

November 1, 2014by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

According to the Pew Center (see Blog for February 15, 2012) 24 million – one out of every eight – voter registrations in the US are very significantly inaccurate. “The […]

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Civil Rights, Voting Rights

Woman on a mission to get voters to the polls

October 10, 2014by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

I just came back from a visit with family and friends in South Carolina.  I also sat down with Will Whitson of WIS tv, Columbia, South Carolina, the local NBC […]

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Life in these United States, U.S. History, Voting Rights

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