Inbox Robot: Voting Rights Act News http://www.inboxrobot.com/news/voting-rights-actConstantly updated news and information about a variety of topics. Opinion nuggets: Convention views http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185721751 30 Aug 2008 07:10 GMT ... took an act of Congress and the will of a president to sign the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act to ensure that black people could go to the ... Obama nomination an 'event of a lifetime' for many http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185714142 30 Aug 2008 06:28 GMT ... opportunity to elect a black president that exists today, he said. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 in order to abet the election of blacks into local and state ... A Sampling From the Varied Legal Blogosphere http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185701008 30 Aug 2008 04:29 GMT ... of Justice has largely ignored vote suppression and failed to take action under the Voting Rights Act in almost any cases where voter suppression and vote caging have occurred. Finally, another ... What's in a Name? Part 2 http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185697103 30 Aug 2008 03:38 GMT ... that made Martin Luther King cryLyndon B. Johnson's 1965 address to Congress introducing a voting rights act. And in a different take on Coates's thought, Caro suggested that the documentation of ... Justice Department to Monitor Elections in Arizona http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185656820 29 Aug 2008 22:50 GMT ... monitor primary elections in Apache and Navajo counties, Ariz., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting rights statutes. Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department ... 2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Xavier Becerra, U.S. House of Representatives, California http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185651168 29 Aug 2008 22:18 GMT ... take place within sight of his mountaintop. On the day President Johnson submitted the Voting Rights Act to Congress, he said, "At times, history and fate meet at a single time ... 2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by David A. Paterson, Governor of New York http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185651164 29 Aug 2008 22:18 GMT ... take place within sight of his mountaintop. On the day President Johnson submitted the Voting Rights Act to Congress, he said, "At times, history and fate meet at a single time ... 2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Senator of New York http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185651158 29 Aug 2008 22:18 GMT ... take place within sight of his mountaintop. On the day President Johnson submitted the Voting Rights Act to Congress, he said, "At times, history and fate meet at a single time ... 2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Mark Warner, Governor of Virginia http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185651156 29 Aug 2008 22:18 GMT ... take place within sight of his mountaintop. On the day President Johnson submitted the Voting Rights Act to Congress, he said, "At times, history and fate meet at a single time ... Speech a landmark moment in history and race relations http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185594969 29 Aug 2008 13:58 GMT ... Rosa Parks' refusal to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, the passage of the Voting Rights Act and Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, which was given 45 ... Benkof: Get rid of majority-minority seats http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185593426 29 Aug 2008 13:37 GMT ... mandated by the Supreme Court in 1986 in Thornburgh vs. Gingles, which interpreted the Voting Rights Act to outlaw "dispersal of blacks into districts in which they constitute an ineffective minority ... Proposition 11 would take redistricting out of the self-serving hands of politicos http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185584122 29 Aug 2008 12:11 GMT ... can watch closely and ask questions. It sets clear standards for compliance with the Voting Rights Act to ensure maps that fairly represent the people of this state. And it removes ... DC Vote Brings Its Message to Convention http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185551101 29 Aug 2008 04:45 GMT ... wore "Taxation Without Representation" T-shirts. "If George W. Bush will not sign the D.C. Voting Rights Act ... Barack Obama will," Norton thundered as she ended her brief address, referring to ... CBC Members Reflect on Obama Nomination http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185551090 29 Aug 2008 04:45 GMT ... Democratic Caucus on Wednesday, he said Obama's nomination is an outgrowth of the the Voting Rights Act of 1964. "I talk about what it means to me as a 68-year-old African-American ... The link between Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185523121 29 Aug 2008 00:55 GMT ... of Johnson, "He asked Martin Luther King in January 1965 to help with the Voting Rights Act by "getting your leaders and you yourself ... to find the worst condition (of ...