By Jason Gonzalez, The New York Amsterdam News

Some call it the unfinished march.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was passed, the battle for the ballot continues. With a stroke of the pen, and after decades of struggle, the bill so many had fought so long for, finally became law. It was a legislative earthquake that sought to end the political violence of the Jim Crow era and grant Black Americans the opportunity to vote, ensuring their fundamental right to determine the course of the country.yould probably bring an end to voting discrimination, which the law itself did. But as various states pushed back, civil rights organizations sort of dropped the ball after the law was passed,” said Raoul Cunningham, former president of the Louisville chapter of the NAACP. The

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