Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer once said our nation fell woefully short of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Two cases before the United States Supreme Court this fall could deliver a final blow to our hard-won voting rights, reverting us to the “with the handful, for the handful, by the handful ” government of Hamer’s time. A North Carolina case could give state legislatures the power to cherry-pick whose vote counts without oversight from the state supreme courts. Another in Alabama could further erode Black voting power in a state where a quarter of its citizens are Black. I refuse to accept that. I refuse to watch my son, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins get cheated out of the right to elect leaders willing to meet their needs. That includes safety from police brutality , equal pay for equal work, access to health care and safe abortions, and the rights all American residents and citizens deserve. It’s why I and my staff...