The Promise of the 26th Amendment Remains Unfulfilled on its 50th Anniversary BY ROSALYN BAKER & WHITNEY WILLIAMS This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to...
Jul 28How Can the Kids Be Alright When Their Voting Rights Are Suppressed?With at least 17 states tightening voting laws, young people who try to cast ballots could face more challenges in the future. N. JAMIYLA...
Jul 20The Promise of the 26th Amendment Remains Unfulfilled on its 50th AnniversaryBY ROSALYN BAKER & WHITNEY WILLIAMS This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to...
Jul 7Readout of White House Meeting with Youth Voting GroupsYesterday, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and White House Public Engagement Director and Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond marked the...
Jul 126th amendment, granting 18-year-olds the right to vote, marks its 50th anniversaryBy Rachel Janfaza, CNN (CNN)Nicolette Carrion did a little dance when she cast her first ballot ever in last year's election. "Now that...
Jun 21How the For the People Act Would Impact Higher EdInside Higher Ed, Alexis Gravely: "The 886-page bill has 10 titles centered around voter access, election integrity and security,...
Nov 30, 2020‘Voting Became a Lot More Cool’: How Gen Z Showed Up for BidenGEN, Mari Uyehara: Generation Z and younger millennials may have once had a reputation as frivolous, but you don’t hear that as much...
Nov 17, 2020Youth Voter Turnout: How We Impacted the ElectionHer Campus, Sana Mamtaney: Georgia’s youth had the largest contribution out of all youth votes in the country, making up 21 percent of...
Nov 7, 2020Black Youth Voter Turnout Helps Propel Biden To VictoryNewsOne: Data from AP VoteCast and the National Election Poll showed President-elect Joe Biden received an outpour of support from Black...
Nov 3, 2020The Collegiate and Young Black Male Vote in 2020Connecting Point: Black voter turnout was at its highest during the Obama elections, but saw its biggest decline in 20 years in 2016....
Nov 1, 2020These Students Voted Early. Now They Wonder: Will It Matter?Chronicle of Higher Education, Vimal Patel: Read the full article here.
Oct 28, 2020Voting In College: Students Get Creative To Rally Young Voters To The PollsYR Media, Claire Hyman: A dearth of typical engagement methods is likely to affect the number of students who register to vote, said Adam...
Oct 28, 2020Why young Black students are stepping in as poll workers this election seasonNBC News, P.R. Lockhart: This year, Jackson, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will be changing this trend on...
Oct 28, 2020How These First-Time Poll Workers Are Fighting for DemocracyVouge, Emma Specter: Tesh, a junior at UNC Asheville who recently helped plan a campus event celebrating 100 years since the 19th...
Oct 27, 2020Why Students Struggle to Find Their Voice in US Presidential ElectionsUniversity Times, Gillian O'Neill: It is clear that recent examples of student activism have shifted political opinion in the U.S and...
Oct 27, 2020Young voters are poised to be a decisive factor even as coronavirus creates obstaclesCNBC, Hannah Miao: With many schools using virtual or hybrid instruction this semester, student voting mobilization efforts have had to...
Oct 26, 2020Going All In to Get Out the Youth VoteVineyard Gazette, Maia Coleman: The new book, which has topped the charts in Amazon’s New Young Adult 20th Century American History...
Oct 25, 2020Photos: The scene as record numbers of early voters wait in long lines and cast ballots by mail for Washington Post: Read the full article here.
Oct 23, 2020Student Leaders Are Expanding Early Voting On Campuses NationwideForbes, Eddy Zerbe | Civic Nation: With Vote Early Day on Saturday, October 24th, these numbers are bound to arise over the course of the...
Oct 23, 2020Young People Are Creating a New Generation of Enthusiastic Poll WorkersTIME, Raisa Bruner: “I knew I wanted to do something to make sure every North Carolinian who wanted to vote would be able to,” Lucas...
Oct 22, 2020‘I Voted’ Stickers for Everyone Who Needs One A New York Magazine collaboration with 48 artists.The New Yorker Mag, The Editors: What these voters need is I VOTED stickers. And so New York, in partnership with I am a voter., asked 48...
