For Black women, voting has never been as simple as showing up to the polls. Even after the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, extending constitutional voting protections regardless of sex, Black women faced barriers designed to keep them from casting a ballot. More than a century later, Black women in…

In this op-ed, behavioral-health researcher Sharon M. Holder, Ph.D., argues there has always been a political war on Black women, from the Nineteenth Amendment’s broken promise to today’s attacks on women in public office. She says voting is a refusal to be silenced. The post The war on Black women isn’t new, and…