Voting rights struggle continues, advocates say at March on Washington anniversary

By: Ashley Murray

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: August 28, 2026

Words: 1,204

Last Updated: 17 hours, 1 minute ago

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WASHINGTON — Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, and 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech there, thousands gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial Friday.

Organizers focused the anniversary march around a “Defend the Vote” message.

The event, co-chaired by civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton …

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