The SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, and advocates say it would disproportionately harm Black elders, unhoused residents and millions of eligible voters who lack required documents.
Jim Crow
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Trump Is Race Baiting Black America For Hopes of Violence, But Here’s Why We Won’t Take the Bait
Black Americans are not taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration’s attempts to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts from the government, despite the administration’s attempts to provoke them.
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Why are reparations for Black Americans so hard?
Despite the growing movement for reparations for Black Americans, critics argue that the lack of cash payments is a major obstacle.
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Mississippi lawmakers seek return to Jim Crow with separate White system of justice
Mississippi’s Black community is outraged that state lawmakers are moving closer to establishing a separate justice system in Jackson for whites and African Americans.
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Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisions
This approach to enforcement is a legal end-run that privatizes a state’s enforcement of the law.
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MLB pulls All-Star game from Atlanta due to GA’s voter restriction law
‘Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box…’
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The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule
The original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of a group of 20 Black preachers
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Our continuing terror: the murder of Ahmaud Arbery
For Blacks, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery it is another humiliation, a continuing terror.
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Even now the US’s slave past is difficult for some to accept
It’s been 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived on these shores, and that’s why we must talk about the history of race in America.
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Reparations are essential to eliminate the wealth gap between black and white Americans
This racial wealth gap is a result not only of the horrors of slavery but also policies – such as Jim Crow laws, redlining and modern-day mass incarceration – that followed.
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From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to the 2020 election, a brief history of reparation promises
Reparations has emerged as a hot topic among Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020. But until now, the issue has only rarely received national attention.