Voting Rights Act

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August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday it will sue Texas over the state's voter ID law and will…
August 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hillary Clinton's latest speech illustrates how an issue that had been largely been confided to outside liberal…
August 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will speak later this month at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the…
August 6, 2013
OPINION - During these last few years we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the right to vote...
August 1, 2013
ANALYSIS - President Obama increasingly sounds like a man with the freedom to say exactly what he thinks...
July 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promising not to let one election go by without protecting minority voting rights....
July 26, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican-backed measure that would make sweeping changes to when and how North Carolinians can vote…
July 26, 2013
ANAYSIS - Eric Holder's gambit to effectively overrule the U.S. Supreme Court is his boldest move yet as the administration's…
July 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday the Justice Department is opening a new front in the battle…
July 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and Democratic Rep. John Lewis are men of a certain age and experience…
July 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican sponsor of the Voting Rights Act updates said Wednesday that Congress must pass a…
July 17, 2013
MSNBC - Shortly after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act, Republican Rep. Trent Franks…
July 15, 2013
MSNBC - Just 22 days after the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act (VRA),…
July 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Following the controversial Supreme Court decision to overturn a core provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,…
July 6, 2013
VIDEO - Scholar and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry spoke to civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about significant changes in the…
July 5, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act last week, it handed Republicans tough questions…
July 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In the wake of the devastating Supreme Court decision, several websites have posted examples of these tests…
July 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As demonstrators cast the right to vote in moral terms, and link their cause to pioneering civil…
July 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C,), the man House Democrats have tapped to lead their push for revising the…
July 1, 2013
OPINION - With the Fourth of July holiday just around the corner, and as we near the 50-year celebration of…