King's granddaughter votes for first time

Yolanda Renee King, eighteen years old and the only grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will vote for the very first time this year.

Trump administration targets voting access

President Trump's efforts to change voter eligibility verification and mail-in ballot handling could create obstacles for voters who rely on mail ballots, including college students like Yolanda, who left Georgia to attend college in New York.

Citizenship requirement bill passes House

The SAVE America Act passed the House in February by a vote of two hundred eighteen to two hundred thirteen, requiring documented proof of citizenship to register to vote. Experts warn this could exclude people whose legal names do not match their citizenship documents.

State laws threaten reproductive rights

Legislation in individual states could decide women's reproductive rights. Yolanda's parents say this is an attack on bodily autonomy itself, a concern they have always stressed with their daughter.

The fight for freedom continues

The same forces that worked to keep marginalized groups from voting when Dr. King was alive are not gone, just repurposed. Freedom is never really won, and the fight never ceases.

King's words on voting rights

Dr. King once said: "So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself." His granddaughter's generation must now fight to protect that right.

“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself.”