The Fight For Voting Rights, Part 1: The Assault Against Black Voters - Blavity

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The Fight For Voting Rights, Part 1: The Assault Against Black Voters - Blavity

“I’ve never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to vote,” President Joe Biden declared as he spoke last Friday at the fall commencement ceremony of South Carolina State University. “This new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion, it’s un-American, it’s undemocratic and sadly, it’s unprecedented since Reconstruction,” the president lamented in front of the HBCU audience, declaring that “we must pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” Is Biden finally stepping up, or is it too little, too late? The president’s remarks come after months of Republican efforts to undermine voting rights in states throughout the country and Democratic gridlock in passing federal voting rights legislation. Political leaders and activists are putting renewed pressure on President Joe Biden to deliver on his promise to protect voting rights. As Biden’s signature Build Back Better legislation has stalled in the Senate, the president...

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