The Voting Rights Act’s language minority provisions remain in force, but that doesn’t mean Latino voters receive the Spanish-language materials they need.
Civil Rights in America
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The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk
How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.
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ALEC Lied About Its Work on Election Suppression Bills
New insights into its model bills on voting restrictions
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The New Freedom Rides
Sixty years ago, activists boarded buses to ride through the South to demand voting rights for Blacks. Today, their successors have been compelled to do it again.
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The Return of Freedom Summer
Amid stalled voting rights legislation in Congress, mass mobilization may be needed to provoke action.
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How We Got to a Just Verdict
On the indispensability of smart, militant movements
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Florida Is Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation
Tear down a Confederate flag in Florida and a protester could be headed to prison. It’s all part of the same national movement to silence dissent in the wake of the George Floyd uprising.
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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Shake Hands
An iconic photograph captured the Washington meeting of these two titans as the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Black Voters Say, ‘You’re Welcome, America’
Dorian Warren explains how Black America voted strategically and made Biden-Harris a reality.
