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On the recordFebruary 25, 2020
Black voters and many non-black voters are in a worse place now than they were in the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.
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Jim Cooper
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cooper highlights the regression of voting rights since the Voting Rights Act.

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