US Civil Rights Leaders Vow to Keep Up Fight for Voting Rights 

WASHINGTON - U.S. civil rights leaders emerged Thursday from a White House meeting with President Joe Biden vowing a "summer of activism" to battle new voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states in recent months.

Vice President Kamala Harris also said Thursday that the Democratic Party would invest $25 million in voter registration and education efforts. Harris, whom the president assigned to lead the administration's efforts on voting rights, made the announcement at her alma mater, Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington. Biden and Harris met with civil rights groups including the NAACP, National Urban League and National Action Network to "discuss the fight to protect the constitutional right to vote," the White House said in a statement.