Voting Rights Act

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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…
July 27, 2020
The House approved a proposal by Rep. Jim Clyburn on renaming the Voting Rights Act after the late Rep. John…
Lynn Whitfield, theGrio
February 13, 2020
Lynne Whitfield is endorsing Joe Biden for president of the United States because she believes service is at the core…
Michelle Obama thegrio.com
August 22, 2018
Former First Lady Michelle Obama tells her family story about voting and so do a few of her celebrity companions…
December 13, 2017
Black voters brought him to this place, and he can’t forget that
May 25, 2017
Clarence Thomas did a shocking thing when he voted with the majority of his Supreme Court colleagues to strike down…
November 18, 2016
Appointing Jeff Sessions to the position of attorney general is like hiring an arsonist for fire chief.
September 21, 2016
U.S. Rep. John Lewis is calling for federal observers to be placed at polling stations on election day in states…
July 20, 2016
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An appeals court has dealt the strongest blow yet to Texas’ strict voter ID law, ruling
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says all Americans owe a debt to the sharecroppers and maids and ordinary Americans…
August 6, 2015
OPINION - In theory, the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution February 3, 1870 gave black men the…
June 14, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Rachel Dolezal had quite a week, perhaps unlike anyone you know, as her parents revealed that the…
March 19, 2015
The U.S. economy is rebounding, the stock market is thriving, and unemployment is down to levels not seen since the
February 4, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by earmarking $50 million
January 20, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to visit Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of historic civil rights
November 4, 2014
In June 1963, there were two people in Washington, D.C. — from opposite ends of the economic spectrum — obsessing
May 14, 2014
DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Congressman John Conyers of Michigan doesn't have enough signatures to appear on the Aug. 5 primary…