WASHINGTON (AP) — The most potent weapon in fighting discrimination at the ballot box comes before the Supreme Court in a case that weighs the nation’s enormous progress in civil rights against the need to continue to protect minority voters. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the part of the Voting […]
Roland Martin talks with Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Marcia Fudge about the Voting Rights Act.
Rev. Al Sharpton has his feet to the pavement this morning marching in Washington D.C. over the Supreme Court’s hearing over the Shelby vs. Holder case, if the court rules Section V of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional; it will allow for devastating changes to happen to the Voting Rights Act. Find out more […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law’s strictest provision. The Voting Rights Act effectively attacked persistent discrimination at the polls by keeping […]
If nothing else, the election of the nation’s first black president has ushered in its share of contradictions. President Obama’s 2008 victory, for example, was initially billed as a post-racial beginning for this country. Unfortunately, it wound up being a wake-up call for racists. The first to rise were the limited-government, no taxes Tea Party […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three days after a diverse coalition of voters propelled President Barack Obama to a second term in the White House. With a look at affirmative action in higher education […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish off that provision. The basic question is […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The future of Texas' voting districts is again in question after a federal court Tuesday found evidence of discrimination in new district maps approved by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature last year. The U.S. District Court in Washington wrote in a 154-page opinion that the maps don't comply with the federal Voting […]
