And the North Carolina NAACP marked the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Saturday by celebrating its recent federal court victory against North Carolina’s voter ID law. The court’s decision last month found the law targeted African Americans with “almost surgical precision.” This is North Carolina NAACP President William Barber speaking to Democracy Now!

Rev. William Barber: “The fact that we have less voting rights today, and the attorney general has less power to enforce voting rights today, than we had in August 6, 1965, when Voting Rights Act was passed, is a travesty.”