
Voting rights activists, led by U.S. Rep. and Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty (D-OH), demonstrate at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill to protest multiple GOP state and federal efforts to restrict the right to vote. Beatty and eight other black women were later arrested. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Good Trouble: We Have Come Too Far and Fought Too Hard. On Our Watch the Clock Will Not Be Turned Back
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the death of civil rights icon and king of Good Trouble John Lewis, who for over 50 righteous years fought and bled for what he deemed the "soul and heart of the democratic process" - the right to vote. Amidst pernicious attacks on that vital right by state and Congressional Repubs, the week also saw protesters on Capitol Hill leading a still-urgent call to "Let the people vote." For their trouble, nine black women were zip-tied and arrested - like Lewis and so many others, but unlike any of thousands of riotous Jan. 6 domestic terrorists. Weird.