eight simple steps to fix american democracy

Take Georgia, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp – who, as secretary of state, also doubles as Georgia’s top election official – is trying to block 53,000 people from registering to vote, nearly 70 per cent of whom are black. ... In the swing state of Florida, more than one in..

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national geographic’s november cover falls back on a racist cliché

My instructions were to dig into the magazine's archives to evaluate the ways it had depicted black and brown people — overseas and in the US. The magazine has changed for the better over the last few decades, and the habit of seeing black and brown people as the other, has never gone..

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Crashed Indonesian Plane's Black Box Found . TEHRAN (FNA)- Indonesian divers recovered a flight recorder from the downed Lion Air jet on the sea floor, a crucial development to find out what caused the new plane to plunge into the sea and kill 189 people. ..

trying again for full employment

Following the Korean War, during which black workers maintained their World War II employment gains, the black unemployment rate climbed, averaging over 9% in the Eisenhower years with the emergence of a persisting pattern of black unemployment that was double the rate for white..

civil rights and voter suppression in the us

Fifty years after the passage of VRA, Trump administration, with the acquiescence of Supreme Court, anew to suppress black power and entrench white supremacy.. charges of suppression are proliferating Georgia, the campaign of Stacey Abrams charges that her opponent, Brian Kemp has disenfranchised..

financial press cheers election of fascist in brazil

An incendiary character with a long history of racist and sexist outbursts, he told a female federal deputy that she was not worthy of being raped by him, said that he would be unable to love a gay son and that his children would never have a black partner, as they had been very well-educated. ..

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