Elijah Cummings: “I guarantee you that we will act in a bipartisan way, because we have made a commitment to our constituents to address…”

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…