They hail from both parties, but they have one thing in common: something called the U.S. Cuba-Democracy PAC.
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How Much Did Black-White Wealth Gap Widen During the Great Recession?
A lot, says a new study from the Pew Research Center.
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Nationwide Ferguson Protests Don’t Halt For the Holidays
This Thanksgiving week, cities from Boston to Oakland proved that America is in a new era of civil rights.
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How Democrats Can Win Back the White Working Class and Increase Turnout Among Blacks and Latinos
Do more for minorities and the poor, and you presumably risk driving social conservatives even further into the arms of Republicans. But ignore the needs of those who need more government activism and the Democratic base fails to turn out.
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Report: South Urgently Needs an ‘Infrastructure of Opportunity’
At the root of the uncertainty lies a pervasive doubt: whether the South can sustain the American Dream of each generation moving up and doing better than previous generations.
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Event Livefeed: The Making of Ferguson with Sherrilyn Ifill and Richard Rothstein
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Economic Policy Institute host a forum to examine the federal, state, and local policies that led to the events in Ferguson with Prospect author Richard Rothstein.
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Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Undaunted By Grim Outcomes, Pro-Choicers Gather to Plot the Future
They had hoped for a better night, but they’re already thinking ahead to 2016.
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We Know College Feminists Care About Sexual Assault. But What About Abortion?
For many students attending schools in East and West Coast states, the legislative efforts to restrict abortion access commonly found in red states can seem quite distant from their own daily gender struggles.
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Chart: Values of Homes Owned by African Americans Take Outsized Hit Compared to Those Owned by Whites
Between 2010 and 2013, inflation-adjusted median home values fell by 4.6 percent for white households and 18.4 percent for African American households.
