The majority of black people remain either saddled with poverty, unemployment and life in America's ghettos, or are living a fragile, insecure middle-class life that may be unavailable to their children.

The Court went outrageously wrong in assuming we have become a post-racial America that no longer needs to be bound by the legal protections that have preserved the electoral process for nearly a half-century. Indeed, discrimination still happens, and it's not limited just to the southern states covered under provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Discrimination happens across America: North, East, West and South. And, unfortunately, it is not rare. The Supreme Court’s decision utterly ignores ...