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He defended North Carolina’s voter suppression law. Now he’s set to become a federal judge there
Thomas Farr will get a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. By Ari Berman.
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The True Story Behind “Marshall”
What really happened in the trial featured in the new biopic of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
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Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
One common response to the national anthem protests originated by Colin Kaepernick is to disparage them as polarizing. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, summed up this particular critique in a tweet last weekend... The idea here is that kneeling NFL players are committing an act of such blatant disrespect that they hand Trump an easy image with which to demagogue. Often attendant to the idea that protesting players are shooting themselves in the foot is the notion that in some other era, black protest proved to be a unifying force that altered the psychology of some critical mass of open-minded whites.
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Argument preview: The justices tackle partisan gerrymandering again
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suggested that it might be the most important case of the upcoming term. On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Gill v. Whitford... By Amy Howe.
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A background check before voting? Kobach-led commission will consider proposal
Trump’s voting commission will weigh a proposal Tuesday about requiring a background check before a person can register to vote — similar to buying a gun. By Brian Lowry.
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The Resegregation of Jefferson County
What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.
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Prominent Republicans Urge Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering
The politicians filed briefs asking the justices to protect democracy by declaring unconstitutional the practice involving the drawing of voting districts.
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The Work that Confederate Monuments Continue To Do
One of the most common questions that I received from reporters this past two weeks was why so many Confederate monuments were dedicated within such a short period of time (1890-1930). It’s a…
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Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle
A black satirist who gave white audiences a deeper feel for the nation’s shameful racial history.
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The Pernicious Myth of the ‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials
Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives
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Why Charlottesville?
The university town was once named “the happiest city in America.” More and more, though, it’s the setting for hatred.
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Don't Give HBO's 'Confederate' the Benefit of the Doubt
The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?
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White Nationalists March on University of Virginia
Fights broke out Friday night after several hundred torch-bearing men and women rallied on the university’s main quadrangle. It was the first in what was expected to be a weekend of such rallies.
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Slavery is Doomed!!
I have long been interested in the evolution of Union soldier opinion on the question of slavery. The Army of the Cumberland, being largely composed of Midwesterners, contained fewer men in the ran…
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What Would Howard Zinn Say?
We turn to the social justice agitator-in-chief for guidance in this "topsy-turvy" world.
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Detroit 1967
The Detroit News looks back at the social unrest in the summer of 1967
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What Many Americans Get Wrong About States' Rights
When it came to slavery, the Union, not the Confederacy, was the true guardian of states' rights in the antebellum era.
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U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel
The two parties join together to sponsor a bill, spearheaded by AIPAC, that would be one of the most authoritarian Congressional measures in years. By Glenn Greenwald, Ryan Grim.
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Growing acceptance of interracial marriage in US
In 2017, 39 percent of Americans said interracial marriage was a good thing for society, up from 24 percent in 2010.
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These three lawyers are quietly purging voter rolls across the country
The Trump administration could soon follow their lead. By Pema Levy.
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