North Carolina legislators closed their on-campus voting sites. HBCU students marched miles to vote anyway
Last year, the state’s board of elections removed several polling sites from local colleges – and students have taken it upon themselves to organize voting On 15 October, the first day of early voting in North Carolina, mostly Black students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NC A&T), Bennett College and University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) marched from their college campuses to their nearest polling sites for the first day of early voting. The suit noted that NC A&T is the country’s largest HBCU, while WCU’s polling place served more Black voters than any other polling site in its county during the 2024 election. “State and county officials brushed aside urgent warnings that their decisions would disproportionately burden young and Black voters and denigrated students who advocated for their rights,” the lawsuit said. “I’ve realized that if we…
