{"id":4168,"date":"2015-08-09T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T17:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2015-08-09T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T17:27:57","slug":"marking-50-years-of-the-voting-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/09\/marking-50-years-of-the-voting-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking 50 years of the Voting Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/presser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4169 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/presser.jpg\" alt=\"presser\" width=\"995\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/presser.jpg 995w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/presser-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> held a press conference to mark the occasion and to talk about the work undone. Speakers included Brett Bursey, Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, and Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Rev. Jackson announced Rainbow\/PUSH&#8217;s plan to hold a conference Aug. 28 in Columbia to further voting rights, among other issues. The Network has agreed to collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cobb-Hunter took the Black Caucus and the Democratic Party to task for blowing a chance last legislative session to map a meaningful redistricting plan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fMAK-nD48E?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the SC Progressive Network held a press conference to mark the occasion and to talk about the work undone. Speakers included Brett Bursey, Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, and Jesse Jackson. In his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/09\/marking-50-years-of-the-voting-rights-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}