Tag: Voting Rights Advancement Act
On its 53rd anniversary, Terri Sewell says Voting Rights Act must...
Monday, August 6, marks the 53rd anniversary of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The VRA abolished restrictions on black Americans...
Supreme Court upholds Ohio decision, says states can purge voters
A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Ohio election law giving state officials the power to purge individuals from the voters rolls who fail to vote...
Terri Sewell holds Speak Out, introduces legislation to restore Voting Rights...
Four years after the Supreme Court’s decision to roll back provisions of Voting Rights Act, Alabama 7th District U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell and a handful of her...
Terri Sewell, House Dems unveil “#RestoreTheVOTE” effort to protect voting rights
Alabama U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a handful of other congressional Democrats in announcing a new effort to "restore and advance" the...
Hillary Clinton: DMV closures “a blast from the Jim Crow past”
Former Secretary of State and more-or-less frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in Birmingham this weekend to speak at the Alabama...
