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‘Keep moving forward’: Rev. Sharpton explains why he’s ‘energized’ in renewed voting rights battle
MSNBC· 2026-05-17 20:59
mutual physicians mutual right now the white house is hosting a nine hour prayer Festival on the National Mall as part of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations. The event will feature over a dozen faith leaders, almost all of them evangelical Protestant. The ceremony is facing backlash for not widely including other religions and allowing several high-ranking administration and elected officials to participate.Well, joining me now here in studio, the perfect person to talk about this with, we have the Re ...
Black voter representation UNDER ATTACK with GOP redistricting
MSNBC· 2026-05-17 01:53
Good evening and welcome back to the Weekend Primetime. We begin this hour with the aftermath of the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the continued cratering of black voters' representation all across the South. In just the past week, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has called for a special session pushing state lawmakers to draw up a new map ahead of the midterms.That map is expected to eliminate the state's only majority-minority district held by Democratic Congressman James Cly ...
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The Economist· 2026-05-14 10:10
Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, on the unfinished battles of the civil-rights era https://t.co/CK0U8xJEkX ...
'Unlawful': Reaction to Alabama GOP's push to eliminate black-majority district
MSNBC· 2026-05-11 18:06
political power in the south is playing out in Alabama Democrats are fighting Republican efforts to eliminate a black majority district a move black voters fear will erase their voice they have until this afternoon to make their argument clear to the U s Supreme Court but the stakes are intensifying because we're just eight days away from that state's primary elections joining us now Rebecca Peercy a Democratic strategist and former political director and senior advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren's preside ...