
'Eyes on the prize': Two activists set aside personal threats to fight new voting restrictions
CNN
This week, Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown will board a 53-foot bus and launch a nine-city tour to rally support for federal legislation to combat new voting restrictions across the country. It's a tough job. But accomplishing near-impossible tasks is their speciality.
They face big obstacles. Among them: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a centrist who is a key vote in a 50-50 Senate and has opposed a sweeping voting rights bill, in its current form, that the Senate is slated to consider this month. He also has resisted changing Senate rules to allow Democrats to pass legislation by a simple majority, a position that could doom another measure that would restore some voter protections first enshrined in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But hard jobs are the specialty of these two friends who co-founded Black Voters Matter Fund five years ago to increase political power in African American communities.
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