The Voting Rights Act Turns 60. Its Future Has Never Looked More Fragile.

The Voting Rights Act Turns 60. Its Future Has Never Looked More Fragile.

Khadidah Stone will never forget the day in 2023 she learned that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld voting rights in her home state of Alabama. She was in a store when her phone buzzed, flooded with messages. “I was standing in the aisle crying,” she recalled. “And the guy at the front of the store was like, ‘Ma’am, are you OK?’” Stone, 28, was one of the plaintiffs in Allen v. Milligan, arguing that Alabama needed two majority-Black congressional d…

OPINIION: 60 years after the Voting Rights Act became law, voting remains a problem in much of Black America – Jackson Advocate

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law what we came to know as the 1965 Voting Rights Act. That event was very significant at the time and remained so for years to come. While it helped doom the Democratic Party among white voters in the south even to this day, it was a good and necessary tool in the hands of Black people. Among other things, the Voting Rights Act nullified state laws requiring the passage of a literacy test…