President Biden vows to strengthen voting rights
The Hindu
Harris to head White House efforts.
Speaking from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre — in which an estimated 300 blacks were killed by white supremacists and many left homeless — U.S. President Joe Biden said he would “fight with every tool at my [his] disposal” to ensure the Senate passed its version of a voting rights Bill, the For the People Act, already passed a by the House of Representatives earlier this year. The President also announced that he had appointed Vice-President Kamala Harris, who is African American and Indian American, to head the White House’s efforts to strengthen voting rights. Describing the massacre in the Greenwood neighbourhood (called the ‘Black Wall Street’ as it was the most prosperous black neighbourhood in America at the time), accounts of which have not made it into most history lessons, Mr Biden described a belief that America did not belong to everyone. “A belief enforced by law, by badge, by hood and by noose,” he said following remarks after he met with survivors of the massacre, the youngest of whom is 100 years old.More Related News