He made history in Congress – then the Supreme Court changed its mind
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When a glass door shattered on the arm of 19-year-old De'Mari Benham, with blood running down his limb and with few other options, he was rushed to the fire department in a friend's car.
Firefighters bandaged him and encouraged the Tuskegee University student to go to a hospital the next town over to receive stitches and medicine.
"I decided not to go," he said. "Both because it's far and because I just simply don't have the funds."
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De'Mari Benham believes the state is trying to curb black Alabamians voting rights. "This means a lot," he says.
It's a common problem. In Tuskegee, a rural Alabama city with less than 9,000 people, over 80% of them African American, nearly one in three people live in poverty. There's no genera...