A new amendment to Tennessee’s Constitution lays a framework for ending abortion rights. If allowed to stand, women and girls in poor communities will suffer the most.Â
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We Let Bill Cosby Into Our Homes, So He Owes Us an Explanation
America’s once-favorite TV dad needs to take his own advice.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Watch Party Dispatch: High Schoolers From Across the Country Want Change Now
For one thing, they’re more concerned with voting rights than the behind-the-scenes details of national politics.
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Watch Party Dispatch: At Howard University, Mentors Challenge Young Activists’ Ideas of Victory
For the African-American community, given all the obstacles, an uptick in turnout can be a victory in and of itself.
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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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Meet the Working Families Party, Whose Ballot Line is in Play in New York
The WFP has amassed the power to turn progressive ideas into law. But a controversial attempt to work a deal with incumbent New York Governor Cuomo has put its ballot line at stake.
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Will Black Millennials, Faced With Voting Restrictions, Turn Out On Election Day?
North Carolina is closing college polling places. Texas has a forbidding ID law. Ohio curtailed early voting. For African-American students, the obstacles are mounting.
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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.
