Black Americans Have Seen This Playbook Before: So When the Courts Retreat, the People Must Act

Black Americans Have Seen This Playbook Before: So When the Courts Retreat, the People Must Act

On a humid May morning in Selma, Alabama, thousands of people filled the streets — an echo of 1965, driven by a new threat: a Supreme Court steadily dismantling the Voting Rights Act that marchers bled for over sixty years ago, under the banner “All Roads Lead to the South.” Yet again, the South is the arena we must fill and fight for our rights.  In the 2020s, federal protections are weakened, inviting Southern states to reintroduce discriminat…