Black people, especially Black women, have been the organizers and facilitators of every gain we've achieved in the last 50 years. It's up to us to ONLY elect candidates who support anti-discriminatory voting legislation.
Rebecca Ferrenz
Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com
The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.
In its 6-3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.
