Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Demonstrations are taking place in cities across the nation today over recent redistricting efforts and what critics say
are rollbacks of voting rights protections.
NPR's Ron Elving reports.
It makes a difference for the people who want to voice their objections to these rollbacks
and reaffirm their belief in the Voting Rights Act.
Now that breakthrough back in 1965.
Followed decades of activism by African Americans and others who believed they could overcome the race-based politics
of the region and elect black people to high office.
There was resistance to that movement then,
and there has been since, and 60 years later we see that resistance at something of a high tide.
As NPR's Ron Elving reporting, one of the latest decisions on redistricting dealt a blow to Democrats in Virginia.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied an effort to revive a congressional map that could have shifted several House seats
in their favor ahead of the November midterms.
The busiest commuter rail service in the nation ground to a halt overnight.
3,500 Long Island rail workers walked off the job in New York.
Bruce Convisor reports the labor dispute has been ongoing for years.
Negotiations between New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the five unions
representing the Long Island Railroad workers have dragged on for three years.
The LIRR transports well over 250,000 commuters a day during the work week,