
Civil rights leaders keep pressure on voting rights in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
CNN
Civil rights leaders are vowing to keep pressure on Congress to pass voting and election bills and to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, in the face of Senate delays on the legislation.
For Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil rights leader who would have turned 93 on Saturday, "the stakes could not be higher to protect and expand" his father's legacy as the national holiday honoring him approaches Monday.
"Senators now face one of the most existential choices of their tenure: protect our voting rights or go down in history as an enabler of voter suppression," King said in a statement last week.

Oklahoma’s governor picks energy executive Alan Armstrong to fill US Senate seat through end of year
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