No Kings Joins “All Roads Lead to the South” National Protest This Saturday Against Attacks on Voting Rights
As Republican-Controlled States Escalate Attacks on Black Voters, Thousands Will Gather in Montgomery and Across the Country this Saturday to Declare: We Will Not Go Back
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Saturday, “All Roads Lead to the South”, the No Kings coalition, faith leaders, movement organizations, and community members from across the country will gather in Alabama, sacred ground in the fight for civil rights, to confront a coordinated assault on our right to vote and demand a future where every vote counts and every community has power.
What: All Roads Lead to the South Nationwide Protest
Where:
- 9 AM | Selma — Faith leaders gather at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for prayer
- 1–5 PM | Montgomery — National Mass Rally at the Alabama State Capitol
- Actions across the country in support of actions in Montgomery and Selma
When: Saturday, May 16
Sixty years after civil rights organizers marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge demanding the freedom to vote, extremist politicians are once again trying to decide whose voices matter in America, and whose do not. Across the South, Republican-controlled state legislatures are targeting Black voters by aggressively gerrymandering congressional maps and dismantling voting protections, in the wake of Supreme Court decisions that gutted the Voting Rights Act. The goal is clear: try to silence Black voters before they can even cast a ballot. Members of the No Kings Steering Committee said:
“What is happening right now is deliberate, coordinated and being driven by Republican politicians committed to abusing power and rigging the system to hold control for themselves and silence Black voters. They plan on overturning every protection available for Black voters and will not be satisfied until they reinstate every Jim Crow-era law.
“That’s why the No Kings coalition is joining in solidarity with All Roads Lead to the South this Saturday in Alabama and across the country for an emergency national protest against the attacks on voting rights by the Supreme Court and the swift effort by Republican-controlled states to disenfranchise millions of Black voters.
“The politicians attacking voting rights today are clinging to a shrinking vision of America rooted in fear, exclusion, and minority rule. They are trying to preserve a past this country has already rejected.
“In this country, we do not answer to kings – not in the White House and not in our state houses. Power belongs to the people, and we the people will decide.”
Black Voters Matter, leading partner organization of All Roads Lead to the South, said:
“Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, we are once again being called to meet this moment with collective action. The attacks on voting rights across the South are not isolated incidents, they are part of a coordinated effort to weaken Black political power.” said Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown, Co-founders of Black Voters Matter Fund. “But we have faced these challenges before, and we know our power. Alabama has always been sacred ground in the fight for freedom, and this moment demands that we rise together once again. We are proud to stand with the No Kings coalition and people across the nation to make clear that our communities will not be pushed backward, our voices will not be silenced, and our power will not be denied.”