Tag: “For The People Act”
While President Biden Addresses Voting Rights, Vice President Harris Hints at Filibuster Remedy
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
While President Joe Biden asserted his discontent with voter suppression laws making their way through legislatures...
U.S. Attorney General Sues Georgia, Says Election Laws Specifically Targeted Black People
By Stacy M. Brown
Declaring that Georgia’s new election laws are intended to deny voting rights specifically to African Americans, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland...
President Biden Signs Juneteenth Holiday into Law
By Stacy M. Brown
Beginning on Friday, June 18, federal employees enjoyed the country’s 12th – and perhaps most significant – paid holiday.
President Joe Biden...
Warnock: GOP Voting Restrictions Resurrect ‘Jim Crow Era’
By BILL BARROW
Associated Press
Sen. Raphael Warnock, whose election as Georgia's first Black senator gave control of the chamber to Democrats, used his first floor...
OP-ED: On Bloody Sunday’s 56-Year Mark, President Biden’s Words Remind Americans That Democracy Needs...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Fifty-six years ago, Bloody Sunday marked a turning point in our nation’s civil rights movement. The brutal assault on peaceful civil...