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Tag: voting rights act of 1965

Vice President Kamala Harris talks about the importance of this year’s November general election during the National Urban League convention in northwest D.C. on July 22. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inNational

Advocates: Voting Rights, Especially for Blacks, Remain Under Attack

by William J. Ford August 3, 2022August 4, 2022

As the 57th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act nears, advocates say voting rights have once again come under attack, especially for African Americans.

Posted inColumnists

Attacking the Right to Vote Has Been Going on for Years; So Too Must Our Advocacy to Preserve Democracy

by Nse Ufot February 17, 2022February 17, 2022
Posted inMLK Memorial Issue

By the Numbers: How the Voting Rights Act Shook the False Supremacy of Black Inferiority

by Lee Ross January 19, 2022January 19, 2022
Martin Luther King III, with his wife Andrea and daughter Yolanda march with Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-Texas, 18th District), and U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas, 9th District) during the March on Washington for Voting Rights in northwest D.C. on Aug. 28. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inPolitics

Voting Rights Battle Ahead in Early 2022

by Laura Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor December 30, 2021December 30, 2021
Posted inNational, Politics

Petition Calls for Renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge in Rep. John Lewis’ Honor

by WI Webstaff July 21, 2020December 21, 2021
John Lewis
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, National

Congressman John Lewis, Last Surviving Speaker from 1963 March on Washington, dies at 80

by WI Webstaff July 18, 2020December 21, 2021
**FILE** A voter asks an election worker a question as she votes at Samuels Community Center in the presidential election in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Nov. 8, 2016. (Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images)
Posted inMarc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Protection from Foreign Interference in Elections

by WI Guest Author May 15, 2019December 21, 2021
Courtesy of NNPA Newswire
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Voter Suppression a Lasting Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

by WI Guest Author March 18, 2019October 31, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. was a champion for equity in education. Ralph Abernathy and his wife Juanita Abernathy (not pictured) follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. The children are (from left) Donzaleigh Abernathy (in striped sweater), Ralph David Abernathy III and Juandalynn R. Abernathy (in glasses). The name of the White minister in the photo is unknown. (Abernathy family photos/Wikipedia Commons)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Selma, the Birthplace of Modern Democracy in America

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. March 5, 2019October 31, 2020
Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks at an immigration policy speech hosted by Donald Trump in Phoenix on Aug. 31, 2016. (Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia)
Posted inOpinion

SCOTT: Sessions Has Black Friends — So What?

by WI Guest Author January 11, 2017October 30, 2020

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