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Civil Rights in America
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The Justice Department Works for You, and Other Myths
At the annual NAACP convention, the contrast between the messaging from Rod Rosenstein, Jeff Sessions’s number two, and Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was stark.
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Kobach’s Looking-Glass Commission
Lofty rhetoric and promises of bipartisanship can’t paper over this presidential commission’s misguided purpose.
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Voting-Rights Activists Rally Against Kobach Commission
As President Donald Trump’s so-called Election Integrity commission met near the White House for the first time on Wednesday morning, roughly 150 protesters gathered outside to voice their opposition to what many criticize as a thinly veiled attempt at voter suppression. The rally, organized by the nonprofit Hip Hop Caucus’s Respect My Vote! campaign, included […]
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Q&A: Virginia’s Danica Roem Aims to Fix Infrastructure — and Make History
If elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, Danica Roem would be the first openly transgender state representative in the United States. The 32-year-old Manassas native won a four-way Democratic primary on a platform of transportation, economic development, education, and inclusion, and is now running for Virginia’s 13th District against 11-term Republican incumbent Delegate Bob […]
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Does the Fed Think Black Lives Matter?
Putting the brakes on the economy would disproportionately damage black America.
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Is the Kobach Commission Violating the Law?
A presidential commission may have run afoul of multiple federal laws with its sweeping request for state voter data.
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New Initiative Takes on Fight for Women’s Leadership in the Labor Movement
Women are set to overtake men in union membership in less than a decade, but their representation in the labor movement’s leadership lags far behind. Georgetown and Rutgers are joining forces in a new project to help bridge the leadership gap. Women already make up nearly half of union membership, and the Center for Economic […]
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Black, American, and Armed
With concerns about police violence and white supremacist groups mounting, some black gun owners have decided to take charge of their own safety.
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Voting Fights in the States
Less suppression than feared; some surprising progress
