Posts Tagged ‘voting rights act of 1965’
How important is voting to you?
Author H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson, who penned Buttermilk Bottom, a sizzling drama placed in a 1950s historical cocoon that reveals the experiences, the lives, and personalities of those affected most by Jim Crow laws, legalized prejudice, and discrimination in the South, pens an essay here on the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and why…
Read MorePatti LaBelle and Common headline ‘Vote 2 End HIV’ concert
On Thursday, Aug. 6, the Rev. Al Sharpton, rapper and actor Common and the incomparable Patti LaBelle partnered with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation for the Vote 2 End HIV: #blackvotesmatter” concert. AID Atlanta, Robi Reed’s For Hope Foundation and LoveHealthy.org came together to galvanize voter support for government resources being directed toward AIDS prevention in minority communities. The free…
Read MoreDemocracy Under Attack; Another State Dismantling Voting Rights Act of 1965
Perhaps we now know why the earth rumbled beneath the Eastern Seaboard then sustained the wrath of Hurricane Irene as she barreled ashore — in the same area and in the same week. The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., who was immortalized with a memorial on the National Mall, may have been aroused to…
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