home.social

#votingrightsact — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #votingrightsact, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.

    One of the simplest and most immediate steps Americans can take regain control of their rights is to simply vote and force accountability on politicians. “Otherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don’t vote. They’re going to do what they want,”

    slate.com/news-and-politics/20

    Paywall free version archive.ph/vNuUe

    #VRA #Voting #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #Slavery #JimCrow #CivilRights #CivilRightsAct #SupremeCourt #constitution #USconstitution #Callais

  2. “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.”
    - Shirley Bassey

    ( "Tear Gas: the most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical." - T-Bone Slim )

    propublica.org/article/charles

    #civilrights #ICEout #Photography #Selma #TearGas #VotingRightsAct

  3. The 1965 #VotingRightsAct, the #centerpiece legislation of the #CivilRights Movement, succeeded in opening the ballot box to #Black Americans & reducing persistent racial #discrimination in voting. Nearly 70 of the 435 congressional districts are protected by #Section2, #ElectionLaw expert Nicholas Stephanopoulos has estimated.

    #law #SCOTUS #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters