"We are suggesting that we are going to continue to exert pressure on policymakers, our Republican senators who represent us in our states," King told CNN on Wednesday. "These 50 Republican senators decided that it's not even worth a discussion and that's pretty sad."
"It's time for all Americans to come together and join this non-violent, non-partisan movement in the spirit of Dr. King and the values he pushed this nation to uphold," Sharpton said. "I'm proud to be a part of the March On for Voting Rights because there is no democratic right more sacred than the right to vote, and it is under threat across America. We must fight to protect it."
This will be the second consecutive year that organizers have commemorated the March on Washington with a renewed effort to fight for equality.
Last year's Get Your Knee Off Our Necks Commitment March in Washington pushed for both federal voting rights legislation, police reform and came at the height of a racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd's death.
Tens of thousands of people attended the march including several families of Black people who have been killed by police. And while demonstrators marched for both the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, neither has been passed.