Demonstrations to Sweep the South over Voting Rights and Redistricting

The Supreme Court Has Unleashed 'Jim Crow 2.0' As The South Rolls Back Black Representation

The decision gutting the Voting Rights Act has commenced the largest rollback of Black representation in the South since the end of Reconstruction.

Black church leaders to march in Selma this weekend over Voting Rights Act ruling

(RNS) — Faith leaders will first gather at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church for a prayer service before marching silently on the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

Selma revisited: Mass voting rights march happening May 16

SELMA, Ala.—Shades of Selma, Ala., in 1965: Faith leaders, labor and civil rights groups will lead a mass march here across the Edmund Pettus Bridge—on May 16, as the centerpiece of an “All Roads Lead To The South: National Day of Action” for voting rights. This time, of course, the marchers will be missing the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the famed African-American labor leader A. Philip R…

Demonstrations to sweep the South over voting rights and redistricting

A wave of voting rights battles and GOP redistricting fights is triggering a coordinated response across the South, with organizers preparing a "Summer of Action" campaign with marches that start this weekend.Why it matters: Organizers say the fight over congressional maps, voting access and political representation is accelerating in real time as states redraw political power ahead of November's midterms and the 2028 general election. The Supre…

Black Americans Set to March Against Voting Rights Attacks

After Trump's election triggered Black Americans to step back from the political frontlines, attacks on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have inspired the largest mobilization yet. Read more...

Marchers Rally to Protect the Voting Rights Act

(AURN News) — Tomorrow, the streets of Alabama will echo with footsteps that history has heard before. The stakes are new, but the threat is urgent and familiar. Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on Selma and Montgomery on Saturday for a national day of action called “All Roads Lead to the South.” More than 90 organizations are behind the effort. Organizers say the march is a response to a Supreme Court ruling that dealt one of the…