Gary Fields

September 18, 2023 | Daily Business Review

New congressional maps would have to include more districts in Alabama and potentially other states where Black voters would have a better chance of electing someone of their choice, a decision widely seen as benefiting Democrats.

By Gary Fields and Adriana Gomez Licon

7 minute read

September 18, 2023 | Daily Report Online

It's been more than three months since the justices' 5-4 ruling, and maps that could produce more districts represented by Black lawmakers still do not exist.

By Gary Fields and Adriana Gomez Licon | The Associated Press

7 minute read

June 09, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Joel Finkelstein was a year out of law school at Cornell when he received the call to head to the Capitol for the signing. Now 83, Finkelstein still isn't sure how he ended up witnessing the signing—on his 25th birthday—but figured President Lyndon Johnson wanted people who had worked on the bill to be present.

By Gary Fields | The Associated Press

4 minute read

April 17, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The National Urban League's annual State of Black America report reveals an increase in recent years in hate crimes and efforts to change classroom curriculums, attempts to make voting more difficult and extremist views being normalized in politics, the military and law enforcement.

By Gary Fields

6 minute read

January 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The states have a range of laws for reinstating rights to felons. In most states, the ability to seek state or local office coincides with the restoration of voting rights.

By Gary Fields and Josh Funk | The Associated Press

6 minute read

December 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Now there will be those both in our state, and across the country, who will point to our victory tonight and try to use it to argue there is no voter suppression in Georgia," U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said. "The fact that millions of Georgians endured hours in lines — and were willing to spend hours in line, lines that wrapped around buildings and went on for blocks, lines in the cold, lines in the rain — is most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist."

By Ayanna Alexander and Gary Fields | The Associated Press

6 minute read

October 18, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Georgia is one of several states where voters will face new hurdles to casting a ballot during the November election under laws passed by Republican-led legislatures following former President Donald Trump's false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020.

By Sudhin Thanawala and Gary Fields | The Associated Press

7 minute read

October 03, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The invisible line dividing two of Alabama's congressional districts slices through Montgomery, near iconic sites from the civil rights movement as…

By Kim Chandler, Mark Sherman and Gary Fields | The Associated Press

13 minute read