Hawzah News Agency, the demonstration was ignited by a recent US Supreme Court ruling that dismantled key protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act—a move critics say has paved the way for the wholesale dilution of Black political influence.
Mass Protests Across America Against the Strangulation of Black Suffrage
Protesters accused Republican-controlled states of redrawing electoral maps in a calculated bid to suppress the Black vote ahead of upcoming elections.
The protest march retraced the historic route from Selma—site of the infamous "Bloody Sunday" crackdown of 1965—to the Alabama State Capitol building.
Democratic Senator Cory Booker, addressing the crowd, declared: "Montgomery is sacred ground in the civil rights movement, and we will not allow this country to be dragged back to the Jim Crow era."
Civil rights activists warn that the newly engineered changes to electoral districts represent a concerted assault on the political voice of Black Americans and a creeping return to policies of racial discrimination—an alarm that has intensified sharply in the wake of the latest Supreme Court rulings.
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