The Supreme Court’s war against Black voters

by Elwood Watson

I still feel outraged and psychologically spent over the Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act.

A 6–3 decision last week struck down a Louisiana congressional map that had resulted in a new Black-voter majority district. The majority opinion, written by right-wing Justice Samuel Alito, unconvincingly argued they were saving the landmark legislation by nullifying it, and that political maps —like the ones that currently have...