Commentary AFL-CIO: Voting Rights Act is Crucial to Ensuring Every Voice is Heard at the Ballot Box by Gary Kopycinski on August 6, 2015 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: