Coretta Scott King's letter is wrenching, not only because it arises out of the urgency of agonizing lived experience, but because it remains current. As we have seen, efforts by the GOP to "intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens" proceeds apace. North Carolina state legislators were so brazen as to not even attempt to disguise their determination to suppress the black vote, and NC's was but the most egregious of voter-suppression initiatives nationwide.

Elizabeth Warren is a hero. Jeff Sessions wasn't picked for attorney general despite being a racist, but because he's a racist. Notwithstanding the GOP's laughable handwringing over "voter fraud," the party couldn't care less about the integrity of the electoral process. African-Americans reject white supremacy and overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, therefore the GOP intends to crush the black vote. It's a scandal.