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Voting Rights Act under attack
Shelby County, Ala. is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair. The facts: The small
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Civil Rights icon says practice ‘aggressive patience’
Hollis Watkins has been fighting for freedom for more than five decades. Watkins, the youngest of 12 children born to sharecroppers in Lincoln, Miss., became the first student from his state to join the
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