Black Americans have worse voting rights now than in 1965

Posted on AllSides June 12th, 2021
From The Left
OPINION

On Tuesday, a cadre of the nation’s top civil rights leaders — from the head of the NAACP to the Rev. Al Sharpton — met with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in an attempt to persuade him to both support federal legislation to protect voting access for people of color and to end the filibuster that’s effectively blocking voting measures. If this meeting conjures up the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, you would not be far off. In fact, the Black community — along with other communities of color — have less...

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