Rambling Rhoads: Black voters matter

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, April 5, 2021

Black voters matter

There’s been a lot in the news recently about the voting-suppression laws passed in Georgia and proposed in numerous other states. Barry Svrluga provided an incisive column in the Post concerning MLB’s decision to move this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/02/mlb-moves-all-star-game-georgia/

Two other related articles from the same issue:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/02/mlb-move-all-star-game-atlanta-voting-law/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/02/companies-against-state-voter-restrictions/

And some additional resources:

https://www.morethanavote.org/

https://fairfight.com/

https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/

https://theplayersalliance.com/