Ari Berman is a political correspondent for the Nation and an investigative journalism fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys, was published in 2010. He lives in New York City.
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The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representa... SEE MORE