Demonstration, held at historic location where the \u2018Mississippi Plan\u2019 was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power<\/p>\n
Thousands of Mississippians, along with allies from other southern states, gathered at the state\u2019s War Memorial Building auditorium on Wednesday in support of voting rights<\/a>. It was the latest in a series of actions protesting the supreme court\u2019s recent decision gutting the provision of the Voting Rights Act preventing racial discrimination, and held on a site integral to the state\u2019s history of Black disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n Section 2 \u201cstopped states, counties, cities, from passing redistricting maps that discriminate against Black voters and it led to the biggest growth of Black political power since Reconstruction\u201d, said Amir Badat, the southern states director at the voting rights group Fair Fight Action.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Demonstration, held at historic location where the \u2018Mississippi Plan\u2019 was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power Thousands of Mississippians, along with allies from other southern states, gathered at the state\u2019s War Memorial Building auditorium on Wednesday in support of voting rights. It was the latest in a series of actions … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}