As the Voting Rights Act Turns 61, We Must Defend the Right to Vote

Sixty-one years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It came less than a year after Freedom Summer, when volunteers registered Black voters across Mississippi and three of […]
Fair Maps Deliver Fair Results: Court-Ordered Redistricting Ensures Equal Voice for Mississippi Voters

MISSISSIPPI — In Tuesday’s elections, the new majority Black legislative districts created as a result of a federal court order allowed voters in those districts to elect candidates of their […]