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        <title>Voting Rights Act of 1965</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[On the Supreme Court's docket]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-06-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here are the top cases that the Supreme Court is expected to decide in the next two weeks: 

California's Proposition 8: Does the California ballot measure limiting marriage to a man and a woman deny same-sex couples their right to the equal protection of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court considers landmark equality cases]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-06-15 19:52:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law. 

Now, as the court heads into the final two weeks of this year's term, the justices may be about to close one...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blacks in 2012 voted at higher rate than whites for the first time]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-08 14:18:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; November&rsquo;s election marked the first time in U.S. history that black voters turned out at a higher rate than whites, according to new census data showing how much the country&rsquo;s burgeoning population of racial and ethnic...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Olen Burrage dies at 82; suspect in slayings of Mississippi civil rights workers]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-24 21:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Olen Burrage, a farmer and Ku Klux Klan member who owned the Mississippi land where the bullet-riddled bodies of three civil rights workers were found buried in the 1960s, has died. He was 82. 

Burrage, who was acquitted on civil rights charges related...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's other benefit]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If it is done right, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) may well promise uninsured Americans a lot more than cheap, reliable medical care. It can also open the door to the democratic empowerment of millions of poor people, who are often...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert slams Supreme Court on Voting Rights Act]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-07 09:44:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After taking on campaign finance with his super PAC last year, Stephen Colbert appears to have moved on to a new favorite cause: voting rights. 

As the host explained Wednesday night  on &ldquo;The Colbert Report,&rdquo; he&rsquo;s &ldquo;personally...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scalia's slam of the Voting Rights Act is a bar-stool rant]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-28 22:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Voting Rights Act's effects still prompt debate]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-06-11 05:20:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[MACON, Ga. Candidacies have been announced, Facebook pages launched, and billboards trumpet the upcoming elections for Macon's new consolidated government. There's just one problem.

No one knows when the vote will actually be held.

It's been in limbo...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-06-10 15:21:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. 

Once everything was secured,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bs-ed-ehrlich-obamacare-20130524,0,6246579.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-24 09:03:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On this Memorial Day weekend, as we remember with deepest gratitude the sacrifice of America's military heroes, we also offer our thoughts and prayers for the victims of the Oklahoma tragedy. 

I've dedicated a half-dozen columns to the single most...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why does Dr. Carson support a party that opposes equal rights?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-19 09:45:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I support The Sun's position on Dr. Ben Carson ("The price of free speech," April 13). Dr. Carson was accorded his First Amendment right to freely express his views on marriage equality &mdash; and those outraged by the hurtful and insulting comments he...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Women's suffrage supporters in Highland Park]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-01 11:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On April 9, many Illinoisans will go to the polls for local and consolidated elections. Enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, universal suffrage evolved piecemeal. The 15th Amendment in 1870 and the 19th Amendment in 1920 enfranchised African-...]]></description>
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