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Texas county DA wins sovereign immunity in voter rights lawsuit
Courthouse News Service· 11 hours agoVoter rights advocacy groups say the legislation runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Americans with Disabilities ...
1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 7 days agoFollowing that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing <...
Daughter shares story of her father, Deputy Sheriff Fifield, during the Civil Rights era
The St. Augustine Record· 3 days agoJohns County, owner of a local gas station, and a 20-year Crescent Beach resident during early...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 3 days agoTo Sewell, voting rights aren’t just policy but personal as she was raised in Selma...the main hub where our civil rights heroes had organized. Now, as Alabama and other southern states begin ...
Opinion: Voting in the footsteps of great African American women
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 22 hours agoWhether it was a local election or a national one, I joined her as she cast her ballot. When I...
Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoI watched the Reagan administration reverse the Department of Justice’s protection of Black voters...
As Black churches see emptier pews, Democrats may lose a key turnout weapon
The Christian Science Monitor· 11 hours agoFor weeks, the Rev. Leon Morehead had been encouraging his flock to attend the Lift Every Voice and ...
Other voices: Right to contraception shouldn't be in question
The Longview News-Journal· 21 hours agoSenate failed to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a straightforward bill that would guarantee a federal right to safe and legal contraception ...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 4 days ago“Lawson went to India and learned about nonviolence and Satyagraha, and he really helped impart that...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 2 days agoSouth Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts that its six-member conservative majority is...