Voting Rights Act

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January 24, 2014
MSNBC - Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed a new government watchdog report which declared some NSA programs illegal, insisting that…
January 22, 2014
ANALYSIS - Can this actually be passed in a Congress divided by partisanship on nearly every issue? Here's a closer…
January 17, 2014
MSNBC - A new bill to strengthen the Voting Rights Act goes out of its way to make an exception…
January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing legislation to restore some parts of the Voting Rights Act…
January 16, 2014
MSNBC - The city of Evergreen, Ala., which has a troubled history when it comes to race and voting rights,…
December 27, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Take a trip down memory lane we recognize the 10 biggest stories of the year in black…
October 17, 2013
MSNBC - In June, the Supreme Court badly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act which had been signed into law…
October 10, 2013
OPINION - The government shutdown in full effect, and not much is getting done in Washington these days...
August 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration will use tools available through the Voting Rights Act to keep…
August 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On the West Coast, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington falls close to three years…
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…