June 25 marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and upended decades of progress.
Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the ballot.
On this anniversary, Tina Knowles-Lawson, Mothers of the Movement, and Black women celebrities urge the Senate to pass H.R. 6800, The HEROES Act, that includes $3.6 billion in funding for state administration of federal elections.
Voters in all these states risked their health, and that of their communities, simply to make their voices heard.
Also today, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and All Voting is Local, with its joint And Still I Vote℠ launched a petition to urge the public to voice their support for the HEROES Act.