president biden will deliver a speech on voting rights in atlanta next week in advance of the martin luther king jr. holiday. biden and democrats have been pushing two pieces of legislation to counter a wave of new republican laws that make it harder to vote, but the bills have stall ed in the senate. so chuck schumer has set the mlk holiday as the deadline. several lawmakers have reflected on the fact that the mob on january 6th was driven by the anger over the massive voter turnout in minority communities and as part of the anniversary, two members of congress, both women of color, talked about the moment they were asked to take off their congressional pins could not identify them. you can take your pin off but you can t take the color of your skin off. and it was a mob. it was a group of terrorists that were fueled by white supremacy and so we knew that what was unsettling to them was the browning of america was the fact that so many people turned out to vote in places like georgi