Newly Elected U.S. Senator Kamala Harris Is a Woman to Watch
If there is a light at the end of the tunnel after last night’s devastating presidential election outcome, then it surely comes in the form of Kamala Harris.
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Tag: Black Vote
The U.S. is not a Post-racial Society
Race was undeniably a factor in this US election.
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I’m Young, Black, and Male. I Live in Fear of a Trump Presidency.
For many of you who are a little older and white, a Trump presidency would be a huge bummer. For me, it would be dangerous.
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‘American Democracy Is More Than One Election’
International election observers assess the state of U.S. politics.
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Is Black Early-Voting Turnout a Cause for Concern?
The first week of returns for North Carolina show that the conflict over voter suppression rages on.
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NAACP sues to stop voter roll purging in N.C.
Local elections boards in North Carolina are illegally removing thousands of voters from the rolls, and a disproportionate number of them are Black, the NAACP said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
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Trump’s ‘Voter Suppression Operation’ Targets Black Voters
Even as the Republican launches a purported African American outreach campaign 12 days before the election, his aides say their goal is to depress turnout in the bloc.
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BY The AtlanticDonald Trump makes it sound like black Americans lead terrible lives—filled with race riots, rampant shootings, and rapid rising unemployment. He seems to think that African American communities are all equally engulfed in poverty. In this video, Atlantic senior associate editor Andrew McGill fact checks some of the candidate’s more presumptuous statements about the lives of black Americans.
AUTHORS Daniel Lombroso & Andrew McGill | CONTINUE READING @ The Atlantic
Is Anything That Trump Says About African American Communities True?
Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
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‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes
Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.
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