The struggles of a century can be wiped out with the stroke of a pen, whether it is erasing Black history from state curricula, or gerrymandering state maps, or purging voter rolls.
Denis Moynihan has worked with Democracy Now! since 2000. He is a bestselling author and a syndicated columnist with King Features. He lives in Colorado, where he founded community radio station KFFR 88.3 FM in the town of Winter Park.
Many of the remarkable achievements of the civil rights movement were forged in Alabama. The 1965 Voting Rights Act followed the Selma-to-Montgomery March earlier that year. The population of Lowndes County, Alabama, was 80% Black, yet not one of those Black residents was registered to vote. Last November, over 120 years after the ratification in 1901 of Alabama’s racist constitution, voters finally replaced it.
This second gerrymandered map was again rejected, this time by a panel of three federal judges, two of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump. This second gerrymandered map was again rejected, this time by a panel of three federal judges, two of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump. Stating in their order that they were “deeply troubled” by the state ignoring the court’s authority, they appointed a special master and a cartographer to draw a map that Alabama will be required to use for the upcoming 2024 election.
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