Voting Rights 2022 and MLK Day Harold Fisher January 17, 2022 at 8:19 pm in PODCASTS, The Daily Drum Insight Segment Tweet One day before President Lyndon Johnson, signed the historic voting rights act, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., held a press conference at The White House on August 5th, 1965. Ironically… on the holiday celebrating his birth.. the fight to strengthen voting rights likely will fizzle during a planned senate vote tomorrow. We look a the role Dr. King played in getting the 1965 voting rights act passed and why the political clock appears to be turning back. https://whur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/THE-DAILY-DRUM-MON-JAN-17-2022-MLK-DAY-AND-VOTING-RIGHTS.mp3 Dr. Ravi Perry, Chair, Political Science Department, Howard University Rev. Alvin Herring, Executive Director, Faith In Action Tags: Dr. Ravi Perry, Executive Director, Faith In Action, Howard University, mlk day, Political Science Department, Rev. Alvin Herring, Voting Rights Act