“In the 1940s, the NAACP ‘s Walter White went with Wendell Willkie [the 1940 Republican presidential nominee] and met with Hollywood producers and said what you are doing in movies is perpetuating the stereotypes and it has to stop,” Linn Washington noted. ..…
Greg Hughes, Republican of Utah House, estimated the state stands to gain between $75 million and $150 million this year due to the federal tax changes, 's comprehensive overhaul effort new impetus.. Otter, Republican, address this month to propose plan that would blunt the..…
New editions of the works of intellectual luminaries from Republican period, appeared sporadically through the 1980s and 1990s. In 2011 three-volume work by Yue Nan called Crossing to South and Returning to North compared the fates of Republican-era intellectuals. ..…
While Southern states accounted for disproportionate 58 percent of total executions in the period, they account for full 81 percent since 1977, despite the fact that only 35 percent of the population resides in South... The burgeoning death row population of the period was one of the targets of..…
President Donald Trump, center, speaks during tax bill event with Republican congressional members of House and Senate on South Lawn of the White House Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Dec 20, 2017. ..…
Democrats did the same thing in states like Rhode Island and Maryland, so this is not Republican- Democratic issue, out.. Of course, our neighbors to the south, Illinois, Democrats have been doing this for years to Republicans, so this could change the standard nationwide... ..…
How President Lyndon Johnson manufactured the 'Tonkin Gulf incident' to get the legal authority to invade and occupy South Vietnam after his election in 1964. . How Richard Nixon, as the Republican candidate for president in 1968, worked to sabotage peace negotiations--an act that Johnson..…
With the goal of peeling away racist white voters from the Democratic Party in the South, the Reagan pandered to bigotry from the very start. . Advised by a local official who told the Republican National Committee that this was the place to appeal to 'George Wallace-inclined voters,' Reagan..…
Turkey’s broadcast regulator, the High Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK), on Thursday fined seven television channels for broadcasting a May 24 meeting of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)’s parliamentary delegation in which legislators chanted a slogan the RTÜK..…
Lumumba, was lifelong advocate of Black self-determination and called for Black in Blackbelt South As mayor, he had agenda of increasing investment Jackson. Then, reactionary and Republican interests moved in, using the mayor's death privatize the city's assets, and cut off parts..…
Religious and social conservatives play an outsize role in Republican nominating contests, including in key early states such as Iowa and South Carolina. ..…
Roemer, whose switch to the Republican Party more than a decade ago mirrored the party's growth in the South, said Bush's endorsement would be especially valuable in more conservative areas of the state, where supporting the president in time of war is regarded as a patriotic duty. . ..…
Hardwick, 1986 - a decision that the court reversed 17 years later (with the votes of three justices appointed by three different Republican presidents) in Lawrence v. ... United States, 1964, and South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 1966, the court upheld that discrimination in interstate..…
For the deposed slave-owner class, which dominated the Democratic Party in the South, the rise of Black Republican elected officials represented everything they had tried to stop: a show of political strength, and even a measure of power, by former slaves. . ..…
South Bend Tribune/SANTIAGO FLORES . . . . . MIKE DELPH . Republican state senator from Carmel, Ind., who has helped author state immigration measures . ..…
It is not, however, an increase in the number of Republican blacks that turned the South into a Republican stronghold—because today most blacks vote for Democratic candidates. Instead, the Republican Party in the South has become more attractive to white voters..…
You can make a loop in Iowa’s northwest corner and never leave serious Republican country. . From Lyon to Osceola counties, south into O’Brien County you go. You skip quickly through Cherokee County, where only 53 percent of the voters supported John McCain in 2008, and start circling..…
Green Party vice Cheri Honkala said that, were she and Jill Stein to win Tuesday's, the first thing they'd do would be to turn White House into the 'green house and enact moratorium on foreclosures in United States of America.. ..…
The Democrats were only partially supportive of civil rights in the 60′s (with southern Democrats advocating “segregation forever”). Lincoln was a Republican, and Republicans in the House and Senate voted for civil rights legislation in the 60s. . ..…
Attacks on Furman, like the related vigorous and continuing criticism of Warren Court decisions protecting the rights of criminal defendants and minority voters, were important part of Republican Party's. The history of in South explains the appeal of the states rights arguments that..…
One of the first ordinances passed by Nauvoo council was toleration act specifying that all faiths were welcome in the city and listing number of them Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Latter-day Saints, Catholics, Jews and. ..…
PAST TYPOLOGY COUNTERPART: Liberal Democrats/Seculars/60’s Democrats . 17% OF GENERAL POPULATION . 19% OF REGISTERED VOTERS . PARTY ID: 59% Democrat; 40% Independent/No Preference, 1% Republican (92% Dem/Lean Dem) . ..…
This group also is highly concentrated in the South, and, of the three core Republican groups, had the lowest turnout in the 2004 election. . ..…
Evangelicals Trend More RepublicanThe rising political clout of Christians is not the result of growth in their numbers except rather their increasing cohesiveness as element of Republican Party. In the late 1980s, white evangelicals in South were still mostly wedded to Democratic Party..…
September 27, 2018 - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Thursday ordered to release all the prisoners of war, and detainees in line with the In his Republican .. September 25, 2018 - South Sudanese surgeon has been named the winner of Nansen Refugee Award supported by United Nations..…
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