Voting Rights Act

Hundreds of arrests nationwide as Poor People’s Campaign intensifies

May 22, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Advocates flood 35 state capitals demanding restoration of Voting Rights Act.

Indigenous votes matter

March 8, 2018 By Mark Maxey

“If we don’t uphold the Voting Rights Act, we are denying constitutional rights for Indigenous persons to be counted."

With federal monitors gone, November 8 could be “open season on voters”

October 14, 2016 By Larry Rubin

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, thus limiting the Justice Department’s authority to monitor elections.

Hearing is last chance to block NC restrictions before 2014 election

July 7, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"The hearing in North Carolina is one with national implications," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP.

RENEW VOTING RIGHTS!

March 11, 2005 By Joyce Wheeler And Tim Wheeler

40 years after Bloody Sunday, 10,000 march in Selma SELMA, Ala. — Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression...