This Election Day, Alabama voters once again will decide whether to remove racist language from the state’s constitution and other sections that ground it in its segregationist past.
‘Dripping in the blood of Jim Crow’: Voting rights groups say GOP-backed bills in Georgia target Black voters
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Atlanta Voting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia. The organizations have been credited with helpi...
Trump State Department official charged for attacking police in Capitol riot
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A former Trump State Department political appointee appeared in Washington, DC, federal court Friday after being charged for pushing against police in the Capitol building during the January 6 opstand. Federico...
CNN-analise: Georgië se voorgestelde naweekbeperkings vir swart stemme sal op swart kiesers toeslaan
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Swart Georgiërs het buite verhouding hul stemme uitgebring op die naweekdae wat die Republikeinse wetgewers as toekomstige verkiesings wil uitskakel., volgens 'n CNN-analise van die stemmingsdata van November verlede jaar ...
Alabama governor says she won’t extend mask mandate past April 9
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Alabama's statewide mask mandate to curb the coronavirus is being extended to April 9 -- but it won't be extended after that, Goewerneur. Kay Ivey said Thursday. Ivey's remark came as she announced that the state's broader...
Met die klok wat tik, Wetgewers in Georgië wil hê die staat moet die sonlig beëindig
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Verlede week, Die Senaat van Georgië het 'n wetsontwerp aanvaar 46-7 dit sou die staat se nakoming van sonlig beëindig. As dit verorden word. dit sou beteken dat inwoners van Peach State nie meer nodig het om voor te berei nie "spring vir ...
New York City developer won’t have to remove floors from residential building in Manhattan, hof beslis
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A New York appeals court reversed a ruling that ordered a Manhattan high-rise construction project to dismantle multiple floors. A February 2020 New York Supreme Court judge's ruling found that the permit for the lu...
A new education secretary has been sworn in. What are the next steps for reopening schools?
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The Senate confirmed Miguel Cardona as education secretary on Monday, jump-starting the Biden administration's long journey toward reopening schools across the country. One of his first acts as a newly sworn-in se...
Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses
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In die somer van 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a residence hall that required keycard access at Smith College. Since she was in a program teaching high school students ov...
Tennessee hoop om 'Amazing Grace' van Dolly Parton te maak’ 'n amptelike staatslied
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'N Wetsontwerp in die Tennessee-wetgewer sou die weergawe van Dolly Parton amptelik maak "Ongelooflike genade" die staatslied, toe te voeg tot sy 10 staatsliedjies. Die wetsontwerp is vroeër vandeesmaand ingestel. Staatsverteenwoordiger. Mike Sparks en ...
Louisiana word beskou as die slegste staat vir kinders tydens die Covid-19-pandemie, Save the Children sê
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Die voortslepende Covid-19-pandemie het verwoesting gesaai vir gesinne regoor die VSA, aangesien skoolafsluitings en sosiale afstand dit moeilik gemaak het om vir kinders voorsiening te maak. Maar in Louisiana, gesinne vaar slegter as in 'n ...
In ‘It’s a Sin,’ the music is its own language
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Washington "It's a Sin," the extraordinary new miniseries now on HBO Max, is about the devastation of the AIDS crisis, ja, but the show is also about the delights of queer kinship bonds, and the urgency of those con...
DHS mandates state and local spending on domestic terrorism prevention
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The Department of Homeland Security will require state and local grant recipients to spend funding on domestic violent extremism prevention efforts, the department announced Thursday. For the first time, the departm...