CURE News Digest: Sunday, May 17, 2026

[CURE News]

VOTING RIGHTS

5-17-26  Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

“The Sunday Morning Wrap-Up” by Joyce Vance

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-sunday-morning-wrap-up-1ef

A sleeping giant awakens.

5-17-26  Letters from an American

“May 16, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court’s decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.  After many years of southern resistance, a bi-partisan congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. And yet in April 2026, the Supreme Court effectively dismantled key aspects of this Act. Richardson reports that yesterday (May 16th) eighteen members of Congress and thousands of Americans, traveled to Selma and Mongomery to participate in the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Movement which calls on all Americans to take action to protect voting rights.  Richardson concludes her post with a quote from Representative Ocasio-Cortez: “They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened. Because it is not a coincidence, and our whole country must understand that it was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the Great Society. Because when Black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected, our schools get funded. When voting rights are protected, healthcare gets expanded. When voted rights are protected, our country moves forward. And Montgomery, that’s what they’re actually afraid of. They’re afraid of us coming together. They’re afraid of us protecting one another.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-16-2026

We will overcome - again.

5-17-26  We (the people) Dissent

“One Bridge - Two Marches:  All Roads Lead to the South” by K. Starling

https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/one-bridgetwo-marches-all-roads-lead

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

~Mahatma Gandhi