The Voting Rights Act Started By and For Black Americans — It Grew Into a Blueprint and Guardrail for an Inclusive Democracy.
The Voting Rights Act is too often framed as protecting only one group through a single lens. That framing is incomplete, and it hides the broader democratic stakes for the entire country. The Voting Rights Act started by and for Black Americans: it was born out of their struggle against Black disenfranchisement in the Jim […]