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Tri States Public Radio Staff
NPR Story
11:00 am
Tue March 13, 2012
Is The Voting Rights Act Still Necessary?
By editor
An effort is underway by at least two states to challenge key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices. As voters in Alabama and Mississippi go to the polls to vote in their states' primaries, host Michel Martin discusses the act with former U.S. Congressman Artur Davis.