presided over a bipartisan reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. At what point are we going to say the quiet part out loud, which is that this isn’t some ideological fight?”
Known as H.R. 4, the bill is headed to the Senate, where Republican opposition is going to be steep. Unless Democrats canNow’s the time to put the pressure on, says Arndrea King, who recently launched, an initiative to fund community organizing efforts in the fight for voting rights, alongside her husband, Martin Luther King III. The couple married in 2006, and as the daughter-in-law of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arndrea Waters King at a rally for voting rights near the U.S. Capitol on September 14, 2021 in Washington, DC.Give Us the Ballot's name is inspired by one of MLK Jr.’s most famous speeches on the right to vote for Black Americans. He, of course, had been instrumental in seeing through the passage of the original voting rights act in the 1960s. “I want people to know and understand that we are in a critical, critical juncture,” Arndrea King says.
Give Us the Ballot has expanded its mission beyond pressing for congressional action, and is now aiming to raise $1 million in support of organizers like Ufot and Brown, who have a proven strategy for countering the onslaught of state-based voter suppression bills and expanding the right to vote for millions. The campaign strategically partners with groups like
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