Almost as quickly as news broke that Attorney General Eric Holder was resigning, people began assessing and critiquing his record. They speculated over his...
Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday urged states to restore voting rights to former prison inmates, an issue he said primarily affects African-Americans.
Eleven states...
PoliticsNation host and National Action Network founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, released the following statement after meeting with President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the recent dismantling of the historic — and still necessary — Voting Rights Act of 1965: Today the United States President and Attorney General met with a broad coalition of civil rights and voting rights leaders to assure us that they will continue to work with us to protect every American’s right to vote. We had great alarm when the Supreme Court ruled against Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act but after meeting with the President and the Attorney General we were assured that the Voting Rights Act may be wounded but it is not dead. It is not even critically wounded; it can and will be revived. The President said his Administration will do whatever is necessary to protect the rights of the American people to vote. I made it clear that one of the things that National Action Network and our pa ...
President Barack Obama should lead a forceful drive to revive the Voting Rights Act, which was effectively disemboweled by the Supreme Court's recent...
If I walked the streets of New York City (or anywhere, really) and asked random people if they knew what happened to the Voting Rights Act last week, I wonder how many would have an answer? If I told them that the Supreme Court just struck down a major Section of the Act, would they know what I was talking about? If I said voter equality suffered the greatest setback in nearly 50 years, would they look at me like I was speaking a foreign language? Probably. Now, if I walked the same streets and asked people about the latest episode of the “Real Housewives Of Atlanta,” an artist’s newest album, last night’s game or anything else entertainment related, I bet I’d get a lot more answers. That is a serious problem. Sometimes, we try to act like it’s only young people who don’t pay enough attention to serious issues, or who spend too much time and energy on music, movies or television. But there are plenty of folks my age and older who ...
