This year, GOP lawmakers took a new tack, trying to place a proposal on the November ballot that would in the future scratch the final Saturday of early voting, a day that in recent years has attracted large numbers of blacks to the polls.
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The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation | The Atlantic
In her new book, Vanessa Siddle Walker reveals how African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.
View MoreThere Is More to Stacey Abrams Than Meets Partisan Eyes | The New York Times
“People who underestimate her risk complete embarrassment,”
View MoreHugo awards: women clean up as NK Jemisin wins best novel again | The Guardian
Jemisin’s third win in as many years signals an end to the influence of the rightwing ‘Puppies’ groups, with female authors winning all major categories at sci-fi awards.
View More‘Passing for white’: how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege | The Guardian
Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing, a theme little seen since the likes of Show Boat and Pinky.
View MoreAretha Franklin’s Revolution | The Atlantic
The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.
View MoreOn the House | Buying home for first time still exciting at age 75 | The Columbus Dispatch
“I thought, God brought me this far. He’ll see me the rest of the way.”
View MoreHow a historian turned artist discovered it’s never too late to start over | The Lily
Nell Painter went back to school at 64.
View MoreAretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, is dead at 76 | Vox
Celebrating the joyful legacy of a musical icon.
View MoreGroundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls | The New York Times
Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota state lawmaker, is poised to be one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, winning the Democratic nomination in a left-leaning district.
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