Voting Rights

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August 6, 2013
OPINION - During these last few years we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the right to vote...
July 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promising not to let one election go by without protecting minority voting rights....
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It’s been more than 53 years since Feb. 1, 1960, the day when Franklin McCain, David Richmond,…
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 16, 2013
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A trial is under way in Pennsylvania on the constitutionality of a state voter identification law...
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 5, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act last week, it handed Republicans tough questions…
July 4, 2013
OPINION - On this Independence Day, everyone is dependent on the government, but African Americans are even more dependent, for…
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
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…