The expulsions of two Black lawmakers, following large student protests for gun control, are part of a sweeping generational battle, in which “Republicans around the country are pushing for laws to make it more difficult for young people to vote.”
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America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, border control and mass incarceration. This reshaping is not one-dimensional...
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Regardless of whether economic conditions are good or bad, Black jobseekers are less likely to find work.
John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.
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Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
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