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Endured that day but bloody sunday was a Turning Point in the civil rights movement. Those images of Alabama State Troopers Beating and gassing John Lewis. Hes one in the backpack, and his fellow protesters, both horrified and galvanized americans and their politicians. The Landmark Voting Rights Act passed just five months after bloody sunday, and its provisions held for half a century until the hard right conservatives on the u. S. Supreme court made their idiotic decision to throw out its provision requiring certain historically discriminatory parts of the country to get preclearance from the Justice Department before making any changes that affect voting. To quote the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg in her dissent, throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because youre not getting wet. Thats what the John Lewis voting Rights Act seeks to restore and even expand, those pr
Joe-bidenClimate-crisis-wouldn-tAfghanistanFailuresWarClimateDecisionReactionDefenseHumanityU-n-Successes going to pick things up from here. i ll see you next weekend, two to 4 pm eastern on msnbc, thank you for watching. on msn bc, than you for and good afternoon, d hello to all of you. i am katie phang, in for simone sanders thompson at this hour, president biden is in selma, alabama. we are looking at live pictures right now, he will be speaking any moment now, marking the anniversary of bloody sunday. a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement that led to landmark voting rights protections. president biden will be calling for expanding voting access. and it has been a busy weekend for republicans, former president trump brings up a mug a coronation speaking to an adoring crowd at cpac, while other gop presidential hopefuls plot their future at a separate meeting. what that all means for 2024. plus, a special simone spotlight. simon spoke with the sensational r&b group, the ladies have been giving us great music for more than three decades. and they may have something new
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