Oklahoma senator introduces bill to boost early literacy starting in kindergarten

State Sen. Adam Pugh has proposed a bill to enhance literacy proficiency in Oklahoma by providing extra instruction, ...
The Fayetteville Observer

Democrats in 1900 made the NC Constitution racist: Will voters today undo that?

White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...
Raleigh News & Observer

NC Senate leader ready to remove Jim Crow-era literacy test from state constitution

The state’s top senator said Tuesday that a literacy test for voters “ought to be out of our constitution” and he’s ready to remove it. It’s not the first time that state lawmakers have wanted to ...
WUNC

Q&A: Rep. Terry Brown on his bill to delete the NC constitution's literacy test

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...