Voting Rights

This week on StoryCorps, we return with Ty Cramer and Steve Romein as they discuss how Common Power branched out towards Selma, Alabama and the significance it has for education and voting rights.

This week on StoryCorps, Ty Cramer and her spouse Steve Romein discuss their early involvement with the organization called Common Power and how it has impacted their careers and lives.

This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery tells the story of her experience on Bloody Sunday, when she and her fellow civil rights protestors attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7th, 1965.

This week on StoryCorps, Amy Nadal interviews Sadie Moss about her experience on Bloody Sunday and her fight for her voting rights.

This week Faith Callens joins StoryCorps to talk about her path to becoming a journalist, how she approaches storytelling in Selma, and her vision for the future of journalism.

State Senator Robert Stewart sits down at StoryCorps and talks with family friend Gwen Carrington. They discuss what it was like for her growing up in Selma during the civil rights movement and how they can help better the community.

The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall. The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court's conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act.

A Montgomery nonprofit is set to unveil a new mural in the city on Sunday related to Civil and Voter rights events. The ACLU of Alabama will also hold a voter engagement rally as part of its campaign to get more Alabamians registered to cast a ballot.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met Tuesday, Sept. 10 in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, debating on abortion, immigration and American democracy. The ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that declared frozen embryos are children was also a talking point for both candidates.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the effective date of a new Alabama law that expands the list of felonies that would cause a person to lose their voting rights.