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Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation
Activists say the ruling could weaken Black political power further as they rally for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act and against redistricting plans.
- On Saturday, NAACP President Derrick Johnson's 117-year-old association joins scores of groups in Alabama for a rally honoring the Civil Rights Movement and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- The Supreme Court's ruling two weeks ago weakened the Voting Rights Act by barring race-conscious district mapping, prompting activists to hope for renewed crusade.
- Evans described splitting Memphis into three sprawling districts as a racial gerrymander, while Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called a June session to redraw congressional lines.
- Rep. Terri Sewell said Democrats prioritize reintroducing the Lewis Voting Rights Act, while Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock called current restrictions 'Jim Crow in new clothes' from his Atlanta pulpit.
- Evans envisions the movement as a 'second Reconstruction' despite activists facing a conservative network entrenched in the White House, Capitol Hill, and state legislatures of the Old Confederacy.
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Can American policy become even more divided than it has been in the last 15 or 20 years? The answer is a resounding yes following the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court evisculating the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 and described as "the crown jewel of the civil rights movement".
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