Next week marks the 49th anniversary of the signing of the landmark civil rights statute, the monumental Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
Next week marks the 48th anniversary of the passage of one of the nation's most historically effective civil rights statutes, the monumental Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
It's common to look back at a story and wonder why it was given so much play, or to question how reporters could have missed something monumental happening right in front of their faces.
In a way, all those marching were just a trace, and as soon as we dissipated into streets and subways afterwards, quickly outnumbered by people going about their everyday lives, that seemed obvious, but in another way, how monumental the right little trace can become!
It's still an enormous project, but Ward distinguishes between "myopic monumentalism" and monumental projects done right.
The court had not considered such a monumental abortion rights case since Casey in 1992.
It did not take some monumental Civil Rights Act to make it happen, and it's not necessary to curb-stomp religious conservatives to keep our evolution on track.
Nearly 50 years after King fought for the passage of the monumental Voting Rights Act, we will refuse to turn around.
With other monumental trans rights decisions on the horizon, there's no doubt that transgender people have much at stake in this election whichever presidential candidate America elects will set the agenda of the court for years to come.
Outside the liberal world of East and West coast cities, is it really that easy for today's contemporaries of Therese and Carol to step out together in 2015 America, an America where the monumental Voting Rights Act was overturned?
