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AL Restores Voting Rights of Ex-Felons But They May Never Find Out

September 5, 2017 Staff 0

Alabama does not have to notify tens of thousands of former felons that they recently regained the right to vote, a federal judge ruled. The judge also found that the state does not have to […]

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Trump Treasury Secretary Won’t Commit to Putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

September 1, 2017 Staff 0

By Damian Paletta, washingtonpost.com Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday would not commit to carrying out the Obama administration’s plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, saying he had not made a decision […]

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King Statue to Stand Alongside Confederates in Georgis Capital

September 1, 2017 Staff 0

by Johnny Kauffman On Monday, 54 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech and less than a month after a counterprotester was killed following a demonstration by white […]

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Southern Heritage Group Files Defamation and Libel Suit Against Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee

August 31, 2017 Staff 0

In response to comments published by several individuals and groups, Save Southern Heritage – Florida (“SSH FL”) has launched a libel and defamation lawsuit that was filed this week the in Hillsborough Circuit Court. The lawsuit […]

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Alabama Restores Voting Rights of Ex-Felons, Former Inmates May Never Know Because Officials Don’t Have to Tell

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Alabama does not have to notify tens of thousands of former felons that they recently regained the right to vote, a federal judge ruled. The judge also found that the state does not have to […]

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America’s Clergy Unite for 1,000 Ministers March in Washington Against White Supremacy

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

  by Adelle Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — From Protestant preachers to Jewish cantors to Catholic nuns, religious leaders of a range of faiths demonstrated in the nation’s capital for racial justice, criticizing the silence of […]

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Black Christian University Professor Suspended After Saying Some BLM Members ‘Should Be Hung’

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

A Black professor at a Christian university in Phoenix has been suspended after a video clip revealed him making troubling remarks about activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. Professor Toby Jennings, of Grand Canyon […]

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Paul Ryan Denounces Presidential Pardon Of Racial Profiling Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

 Arpaio—a former sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona—was convicted last month on charges that stemmed from contravening a court order related to a racial profiling case, the outlet said. He was slated to be sentenced for […]

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Emmett Till: 62nd Anniversary Of Lynching Reignites Calls For Apology

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Sixty-two years ago on August 28, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a White woman, told a lie that got a fourteen year-old boy killed. The 62nd anniversary comes just days after the nation witnessed racial terror inCharlottesville, Virginia, […]

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More Chaos in Houston as Floodwaters Rise to Roof Lines

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Rain from Tropical Storm Harvey falls as a firefighter is wheeled to a waiting ambulance after he became fatigued while fighting an office building fire in downtown in Houston, Texas, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP […]

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