Voting Rights Act

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Alabama redistricting, voting rights, theGrio.com
June 13, 2023
The 5-4 ruling could pave the way to require redistricting that is more favorable to Black voters in several states…
Alabama redistricting, voting rights, theGrio.com
June 7, 2023
Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced…
March 25, 2022
A third lawsuit has been filed by the Biden administration regarding Texas redistricting maps which have been deemed discriminatory.
Signs indicating where to vote
February 28, 2022
Dems are building a war chest to spend record sums on attorneys and other efforts to help protect the vote…
February 15, 2022
John Bel Edwards did not tell the media Monday if he will veto the bills, saying, "The simple answer: I…
Martin Luther King III - theGrio.com
January 15, 2022
The King family and other demonstrators are demanding that the Senate pass the Freedom to Vote Act, a comprehensive voting…
Signs indicating where to vote
January 14, 2022
The stakes for the Democratic Party could not be greater, and the future of American multiracial democracy itself hangs in…
COP26 Adaptation, Loss and Damage - Day Nine
January 13, 2022
Barack Obama writes his first op-ed since leaving the White House on the importance of voting rights in the face…
January 11, 2022
We must resign ourselves that we will always have to fight. They will never let us vote but we will…
January 10, 2022
"In 2020, millions made their voices heard at the polls," Obama tweeted, noting that foes of "progress are making it…
prison thegrio.com
August 24, 2021
North Carolina judges rule to grant voting access to over 50,000 convicted felons including ones currently on probation
August 18, 2021
Americans will have to expand our imagination and develop a new constitution that respects human rights and protects the right…
theGRIO.com
August 6, 2021
Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III hosted a call on August 5 to honor the 56th anniversary of…
June 21, 2021
Lindsay Graham called S.R. 1 "a bad idea" on "Fox News Sunday," dubbing it "a problem that most Republicans are…
May 16, 2021
Hundreds of bills have filed in 47 states this year have provisions that would expand voting rights, the Brennan Center…
April 2, 2021
Rep. Jim Clyburn is "insulted" that West Virginia's Joe Manchin is the only Democratic senator not to co-sponsor the For…
March 7, 2021
This year’s commemoration comes as some states seek to roll back ballot access, while advocates try to revive a part…
February 28, 2021
The case considers Arizona restrictions on ballot collection and another policy penalizing voters who cast ballots at the wrong precinct.
December 18, 2020
The Peach State's runoff was created because whites feared their candidates would be subject to split votes, and Blacks' picks…
December 17, 2020
In the final weeks before his Georgia Senate runoff, Jon Ossoff tributes the late Congressman John Lewis in a new…