Voting Rights Act

All Articles

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…
July 1, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A range of politicians, from civil rights legend John Lewis to President Obama to Rep. Eric Cantor…
June 29, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision to tear out the heart out of the Voting Rights Act should serve as…
June 28, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Democratic legislator from Minnesota swiftly apologized Tuesday for a tweet he sent that referred…
June 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Republicans are divided on how to handle both the Voting Rights Act and immigration, two politically-charged issues…
June 27, 2013
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court "made a mistake" in its decision to throw out…
June 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has thrown out lower court rulings that blocked a Texas voter identification law and…
June 26, 2013
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
June 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - The week was not a clear victory for liberals, who were angered by the Court's gutting of the…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, reacted with disappointment to Tuesday's Supreme Court decision striking down a…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, is devastating, but not definitive...