MCCOMB, Miss. (WLBT) – Local civil rights activist Brenda Travis has died. She was 81 years outdated. As a teen in McComb, Travis made the choice to face in opposition to injustice, to push for voting rights and equality. Her braveness led to a protest after her expulsion from college when she was 15 years…
The quick consequence of the Supreme Court’s resolution in Louisiana v. Callais is that Republican-led states in the South can destroy their majority-minority districts and, in flip, deprive their Black residents of federal illustration by politicians of their selecting. Within days of the ruling, in truth, legislators in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama rushed to…
Three conservative Supreme Court justices, together with Neil Gorsuch, insisted this week that they are not political actors whereas defending an establishment they declare is wrongly seen by way of a partisan lens. Where Gorsuch selected to speak about his new youngsters’s guide, nonetheless, exhibits how the courtroom’s liberal-conservative divide can lengthen even to the…
With its decision this week in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court gutted a core a part of the Voting Rights Act, Congress’s landmark prohibition on voting guidelines which have the impact of excluding individuals of shade from the political course of. In doing so, the court docket has, not for the first time, claimed…
