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Sen. Doug Jones is a distinguished senior fellow with American Progress, focusing his work on issues of racial justice and equality, voting rights, and law enforcement reform.
A celebrated prosecutor who brought long-overdue justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Sen. Jones has built his career on fighting impossible battles. In 2017, he shocked the political establishment by winning a special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama the first Democrat to do so in 25 years in the state. On Capitol Hill, he quickly built a reputation as a well-regarded and effective legislator, passing more than two dozen bipartisan bills into law in just three years. He also established the annual tradition of a bipartisan reading of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in the Senate chamber and has been an outspoken Southern voice in support of racial justice and equity.
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In a 1968 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Those words, inspired by 19th-century abolitionist Theodore Parker, are engraved on the South Wall of King’s Washington, D.C., memorial. Barack Obama often quoted them, and even had them woven into an Oval Office rug. And now, North Las Vegas’ Left of Center Art Gallery has themed a new art show around them.
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UL Announces Plans For Voting Rights Reading Series
UL says its discussion series focusing on the history of voting rights in the United States will take place next month.
That series, Who Gets to Vote? Conversations on Voting Rights in America, is funded by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The four-week series begins on Wednesday, March 10. Successive sessions will take place on the following Wednesday nights. Each session will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. According to university officials, participants will discuss one of four books. Those discussions will take place via Zoom. University professors will serve as discussion moderators, not as lecturers.