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SEP. 8, 2021, AT 6:00 AM By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting access in the Lone Star State.  Back in the spring, disagreements between Senate and House Republicans delayed the final vote on the proposal until the last day of Texas’s regular legislative session, making it…

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By Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox SMITHSONIANMAG.COM AUGUST 27, 2020 In 1834 there were even more riots against African Americans, most notably in New Haven, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and New York City. The mayor of New York allowed the destruction of African American homes and businesses to continue for days before finally calling out the state…

Read More How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein Updated 1:16 AM ET, Fri April 23, 2021 Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and now Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to “replace” native-born Americans in the nation’s culture and electorate.But that racist “replacement theory” inverts the real consequence of…

Read More The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward

To be the Black mother of a child who appears white can raise all kinds of questions and comments from strangers. Even the “nice” comments are loaded with assumptions about beauty and belonging. By listening to her own family history, reading the narratives of women who raised children while enslaved in her home state of North…

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Isabel Wilkerson writes in chapter 8, “Hitler had made it to the chancellery in a brokered deal that conservative elites agreed to only because they were convinced they could hold him in check and make use of him for their own political aims.” Wilkerson continues, “By the time they recognized their fatal miscalculation, it was…

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By Channon Hodge, CNN Updated 4:00 AM ET, Sun October 11, 2020 A new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep to untangle a twisted reality. Black people continually face danger behind the wheel, and it’s rooted in history. The two-hour film, premiering October 13 on PBS, winds its way from slavery to Jim Crow to the advent…

Read More Filmmakers unearth a long trail of racism in ‘Driving While Black’

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Updated 9:00 AM ET, Sat October 10, 2020 Black Americans pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that contributes to roughly half of the $130,000 retirement savings gap between Blacks and Whites, according to new study from MIT. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage interest, mortgage…

Read More Black Americans are paying more to own a home and falling further behind