这个选举日, 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, 直流电, federal court Friday after being charged for pushing against police in the Capitol building during the January 6 起义. Federico...
CNN analysis: Georgia’s proposed weekend voting restrictions would strike at Black voters
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Black Georgians disproportionately cast their ballots on the weekend days that Republican lawmakers want to eliminate as options in future elections, according to a CNN analysis of voting data from last November's g...
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, 政府. Kay Ivey said Thursday. Ivey's remark came as she announced that the state's broader...
With the clock ticking, Georgia lawmakers want the state to end daylight saving time
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上个星期, Georgia's Senate passed a bill 46-7 that would end the state's observance of daylight saving time. If enacted. it would mean that Peach State residents would not longer need to prepare for "springing for...
New York City developer won’t have to remove floors from residential building in Manhattan, 法院规则
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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 the summer of 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 is hoping to make Dolly Parton’s ‘Amazing Grace’ an official state song
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A bill in the Tennessee Legislature would officially make Dolly Parton's version of "奇异恩典" the state hymn, adding to its 10 state songs. The bill was introduced earlier this month. 国家代表. Mike Sparks a...
Louisiana ranks as the worst state for children during the Covid-19 pandemic, Save the Children says
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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc for families across the US, as school closures and social distancing have made it difficult to provide for kids. But in Louisiana, families are faring worse than in an...
In ‘It’s a Sin,’ the music is its own language
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华盛顿州 "It's a Sin," the extraordinary new miniseries now on HBO Max, is about the devastation of the AIDS crisis, 是, 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. 首次, the departm...