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JEALOUS: Senate GOP Blocks This Generation’s Voting Rights Act — Will Biden Meet the Challenge?

The Washington Informer 04 Nov 2021
... put their bodies on the line to secure and expand the right to vote — including suffragists who faced beatings for having the audacity to demand the right to vote for women and activists who risked and sometimes gave their lives to protect Black Americans’ right to vote.
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Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams to Deliver TSU’s Fall Commencement Address

The Tennessee Tribune 04 Nov 2021
... women and families throughout her political and professional career ... She has membership in several caucuses, including the Congressional Black Caucus, Democratic Women’s Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Voting Rights Caucus, LBGTQ+ Equality Caucus, and the HBCU Caucus.
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Review: Dune has an aura of pictorial grandiosity that leads up to nothing

Dawn 04 Nov 2021
Draped in black and secrecy, these women are rightly called ‘witches’ by some ... A fleeting scene with pine trees, shots of veiled women praying with mists of incense around them, and passing references to the messiah relay bare essentials of the backstory.
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You Damn Karens Are Killing America

The Daily Beast 03 Nov 2021
These suburban, PTA moms were “segregation’s constant gardeners” who helped keep Jim Crow alive; they upheld white power at the expense of Black and brown women as they marched towards suffrage; and they even came out to derail the Equal Rights Amendment, thanks to the advocacy ...
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Martin Luther King III arrested, later released after voting rights protest outside White House

The Grio 03 Nov 2021
Cornell Belcher, Democratic pollster for Brilliant Corners said voting rights is “the number one issue for Black women.” The face of the fight for voting rights over the decades has been Black America, however, restrictive voting laws impact everyone from all races and genders.
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How to create more diverse law schools in 2021

Reuters 03 Nov 2021
Sylvia Polo, former Dean of Graduate Legal Studies at Columbia University, mentor, and international higher education specialist, says that it is necessary “to train faculty on how to pronounce a foreign person’s name right or how to cure the professor who confuses two Black women in the class.”.
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The Bachelorette: fans praise Michelle Young for her vulnerable poem about being the ‘token black girl’

m&c; 03 Nov 2021
Michelle opted to partake in the challenge and read a poem about how she was regarded as the “token black girl” at her school ... One fan account tweeted, “Michelle is speaking for so many Black women and girls right now.”. Michelle is speaking for so many Black women and girls right now.
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Shrinking the role of government is needed to get the economy back on track

The Hill 03 Nov 2021
Simply spending taxpayer dollars will not generate the type of economic growth we need right now ... In 2018 and 2019, we saw record growth in wages for women, Blacks, and Hispanics ... We must return some sanity to Washington, which starts with getting our fiscal house in order and right sizing the role of government.
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The repuke agenda is the theocratic agenda

Democratic Underground 02 Nov 2021
And they think women are to suffer because of thier destructive beliefs ... They believe the notion women,gblt, black and brown people and liberals and non believers have no human rights ... That lie they believe women having independence is evil ... That old toxic belief of divine right of kings.
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Black women voters in Virginia say they won’t be taken for granted

The Grio 01 Nov 2021
Across the aisle, Black women are saying they want more representation ... But for many Black women voters – who have arguably the most to gain in terms of winning more representation in the statehouse and executive branch – making history isn’t the main draw in this election ... Black women typically lean heavily Democrat.
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Michelle Obama to speak with college students nationwide

The Lufkin News 01 Nov 2021
But Obama's book has been assigned everywhere from Ohio State University to Fresno City College, in courses ranging from civil rights history to Black women's studies ... “We know the book has been deeply impactful for young people, especially young women, and has become a kind of touchstone,” Drake said ... All rights reserved.
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US Supreme Court hears challenges to Texas abortion ban

Al Jazeera 01 Nov 2021
Women’s rights advocates have said the legislation will disproportionately harm Black and other women of colour, as well as those from economically disadvantaged communities who cannot afford to travel outside of Texas to get abortions. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of women ...
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20 Minutes With: Art Dealer and Curator Nicola Vassell

Barrons 01 Nov 2021
I have one idea of what that might look like and I think in the swirl of the pandemic, of the social landscape, and an increase in activism generally for Black rights, women’s rights, a kind of perfect storm emerged.
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Glenn Youngkin vs. Toni Morrison

Las Vegas Sun 01 Nov 2021
When you talk about people’s faces turning bright red, Black people know that you are talking about white people; dark-skinned people don’t do that ... As the PBS series “Slavery and the Making of America” notes, “Within the bonds of slavery, masters often felt it their right to engage in sexual activity with Black women.
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Double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse tests claims of self-defence in racial justice protest killings

The Independent 01 Nov 2021
On 23 August, 2020, widely shared video captured a white police officer firing seven shots at a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin ... Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by police in Wisconsin, was left paralysed from the waist down ... Most of the potential jurors are white; reporters noted that only three Black women were among the pool.
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