Sign up for the Guardian's Fight to Vote newsletterHappy Thursday,Since I joined the Guardian in 2019 to focus on voting rights, the topic has exploded and moved to the center of the American politics. She pointed out that the US has a long history of suppressing Black voters when they increase their political participation. People exercise their vote, particularly Black voters, and then they’re punished for exercising that vote,” she told me. “Last decade Republicans tried to pack Black voters into districts in the south and claim that they were trying to do it because of the [Voting Rights Act]. Democrats have placed a lot of effort into fixing these problems in a sweeping voting rights bill under consideration in Washington.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2021 13:52 UTC