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ACLU-NJ Commends Passage of New Jersey Voter Empowerment Act by Senate Judiciary Committee 

The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed the John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey, a bill that will protect and expand voting rights in New Jersey. The following st...

Thousands March at Edmund Pettus Bridge Over Black Voting Rights

Hundreds of faith leaders and voting rights activists marched in silence across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday, May 16, returning to the site of one of the most visceral mome...

Dem. backed bills aimed at protecting voters' rights fail in committee

BATON ROUGE - In front of a crowd so large that it spilled over into three rooms, two bills aimed at protecting voters failed to make it through a Senate and Governmental Affairs c...

Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Chris Shenton on the gutting of the Voting Rights Act

  One of the greatest achievements of the American Civil Rights movement was the enactment more than 60 years ago of a law known as the Voting Rights Act. Though it had several pro...

Warren Statement on the Supreme Court Dismantling the Voting Rights Act

The Ballot Remains The Battlefield: The Demise Of The Voting Rights Act

Written by Dr. Russ Wigginton The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively renders Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) a “dead letter” by requiring proof o...

CBS News Radio flashback: LBJ calls for equal voting rights after Selma march in 1965

Major Garrett introduces CBS News Radio coverage of President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 speech to Congress, calling for equal voting rights for Black Americans.

The Louisiana State Voting Rights Act (SB 365): why the fight for equal protection can’t wait

On Wednesday morning, a Senate committee will vote on the Louisiana State Voting Rights Act, which lays the foundation for preserving the integrity of our democracy. [...] Read Mor...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

Brian Stauffer Racists undoing democracy. The post Undoing the Voting Rights Act appeared first on The Nation.

Voting rights and the ancestral voices of the African diaspora

Let me tell you what just happened: The U.S. Supreme Court effectively dismantled the Voting Rights Act. The very legislation for which John Lewis bled on that bridge, for which Fa...

Louisiana Voting Rights Act bill fails, aimed to create safeguards for voters

A bill looking to ensure every Louisiana voter could make it to the ballot box and have an equal voice in their government went before the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee...

Thousands Marched In Selma For Voting Rights On Saturday

If you’ve been feeling depressed about the Republicans’ rush to disenfranchise Black and minority voters, after a greenlight from the U.S. Supreme Court, you should be heartened by...

What to know about the Voting Rights Act after historic Supreme Court decision 

“The Supreme Court has not just weakened a law, it has humiliated and dismantled the life’s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and every man and woman who marched, ble...

Black advocates in NC warn Jim Crow era ‘never ended’ as voting maps shift across South

The Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act in an April ruling this year.

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to protest redistricting by southern Republican state legislatures targeting Black Democratic members...

SCOTUS kills Voting Rights Act

Hello, Jim Crow 2.0

Voting Rights Advocates Mobilize Nationwide For ‘All Roads Lead To The South’ Day Of Action

What is the ‘All Roads Lead to the South’ Day of Action? Voting rights advocates, faith leaders, and civil rights activists will gather across Alabama and cities nationwide on Satu...

Southern voting rights advocates see rise in momentum after gutting of the Voting Rights Act

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, voting rights advocates are sharpening their messaging. The April 29 Callais ruling inval...

What to know about the Voting Rights Act after historic Supreme Court decision 

“The Supreme Court has not just weakened a law, it has humiliated and dismantled the life’s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and every man and woman who marched, ble...

The Second ‘Redemption’

The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congre...

The Plot to Destroy the Voting Rights Act

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to protest redistricting by southern Republican state legislatures targeting Black Democratic members...

Thousands Rally in Montgomery for Voting Rights| WATCH

*On May 16, 2026, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest recent changes to congressional voting maps and a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision...

On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers before returning two weeks later to complete th...