Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...
PolitiFact

Was the Voting Rights Act created because of Democrat gerrymandering? Fact-checking Byron Donalds

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...
The Root on MSN

The rich political history of Black voting districts where rights are at risk

From slavery to civil rights and music, we're laying out all the congressional districts targeted in redistricting battles ...

The Law They Hate Was a High Point of Our History

It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was ...
Daily Bruin

Analyzing history, recent legislative implications of 1965 Voting Rights Act

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...
KQED

Proposition 17 and the History of Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated Californians

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...
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With voting rights changes, what's at stake for Florida's young Black voters?

Historians talk Voting Rights Act ruling impact on Black youth ...