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Restoring Voting Rights To All Incarcerated Individuals
Photos: YouTube\MIT Local organizer and advocate for incarcerated people Chaplain Victor Pate has dedicated much of his life to helping those incarcerated, as well ...
Ted Cruz’s Wildly Dishonest Shameless Defense of Voter Suppression
Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless liar. And he isn’t even a very good one. Witness his latest dishonest defense of ...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Journalist, Educator, Civil Rights Leader
Photo: YouTube Activist and writer Ida B. Wells-Barnett first became prominent in the 1890s because she brought international attention to the lynching of African-Americans ...
Black Voting Rights Are Again Under Siege by “Jefferson Davis Republicans” Are Again Under Siege by “Jefferson Davis Republicans”
Photos: YouTube The fundamental right in a democracy — the right to vote — is once more under siege. In state after state, Republican ...
Museum Exhibit Highlights African American Contributions To World War I Victory
Brave soldiers helped defend the democracy they were denied. [Black History Month] By 1914, slavery had been abolished by a mere 49 years and ...
Georgia’s Long History of Black Voter Suppression is Continuing in Current Runoff Races
Photos: YouTube\Twitter Civil Rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson says the Georgia runoff races where Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seeking to win ...
Tri-Caucus Speaks out on Trump’s Prohibition Against Anti-Racism Training
[Congressional Tri-Caucus] “In the middle of a national reckoning on racial injustice, the Trump administration is trying to sweep our nation’s history of racism ...
AFT CALLS VIRGINIA HOUSE PASSAGE OF PUBLIC SERVANTS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BILL“HISTORIC”
[Collective Bargaining\ AFT\Randi Weingarten] AFT’S Weingarten: “Today is historic. Public employees across the commonwealth will finally have a voice at work, and the ability ...
NEW YORK STATE SENATOR PARKER INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ALLOW VOTING RIGHTS TO INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS
[Mass Incarceration\Voting Rights] NY State Senator Kevin Parker: “When Senate Democrats were in the majority in 2010 we enacted fair, common-sense laws to have ...
Theater: “The Great Divas of Gospel” And All-Star Reading of “The People of Clarendon County”
[Theater] Woodie King Jr’s National Black Touring Circuit. 2014 Black History Month Play Festival on February 22 – 23 in Harlem S. Epatha Merkerson, ...
