“This is not a protest. This is a calling in. In many ways, it’s like an altar call,” said LaTosha

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Federal judges have temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

via US news | The Guardian — Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power Thousands of Mississippians, along with allies from other southern states, gathered at the state’s War Memorial Building auditorium on Wednesday in support of voting rights . It was the latest in a series of actions protesting the supreme court’s recent decision gutting the provision of the Voting Rights Act preventing racial discrimination, and held on a

via - Democracy Docket — Democratic lawmakers, civil rights leaders and protesters converged on the Tennessee State Capitol as Republicans began work to enact a new congressional gerrymander just days after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act decision — a move voting advocates say would dismantle Black voting power. The post Tennessee Democrats, civil rights leaders rebuke ‘racist’ new gerrymander as GOP begins session to dismantle only majority-Black district appeared first on Democracy Docket .