This short documentary follows the lives of immigrants detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Georgia in 2020 as they fight for protection from COVID-19 and dignity before U.S. law.
The grassroots organizing strategy that led to historic victories in 2020’s elections continued to boost voter turnout in communities of color.
Open season on protesters, but the fight to defend rights is on
U.S. school bus drivers in nationwide strikes over poor pay and Covid risk
Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year.
Six months after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the case of a Black man killed while jogging in Georgia is a sterner litmus test
Since Georgia implemented automatic voter registration in 2016, its number of registered voters has increased by about 1.5 million. But will it survive Republican assaults?
You read that correctly. The new law grants the Republican majority the authority to change the rules mid-election, deciding where, how, when, or if my vote will count.
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Actor Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua are moving production of their upcoming film “Emancipation” out of Georgia in a protest against voter suppression legislation signed by Republican Governor Brian Kemp in March.
Republicans claim that the wave of GOP voter suppression laws sweeping across the nation are not a return to Jim Crow because they "apply fairly and equally" to everyone regardless of race and they don't contain explicitly racial provisions.
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