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The new Texas bill, SB7, mandates that you can vote with gun permit but not student ID, no online voter registration, individuals must be deputized to register voters, voters under 65 can’t use fear of COVID to vote by mail. In addition, Texas has closed 750 polling places since the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts destroyed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with their Shelby vs. Holder decision in 2013.
The post After Record Turnout In 2020, Texas Set To Pass Most Restrictive Voting Laws In The U.S. appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE, at least 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent voted. That turnout is at least ten percentage points higher than in 2016, and the […]
The battleground states across the industrial Midwest have functioned as the decisive tipping point of American politics for at least 30 years, especially in presidential elections. But the latest Census Bureau findings on both overall population growth and voter turnout in 2020 signal that the Sun Belt will increasingly rival, and potentially replace, the Rust Belt as the central battlefield in US elections.
Memphis Urban League Young Professionals (MULYP) will partner with the Memphis Urban League and the US Census Bureau to host a Voter Registration/Census Caravan and Neighborhood Clean Up on Saturday (Sept. 19). The event, which begins at noon, will feature a caravan through one of the lowest Census count areas of Memphis (South of the […]
Volusia County races will include county chair; council district seats 2, 3 and 4; sheriff; property appraiser; county clerk; and supervisor of elections.
Our officers and committee members always have voter registration material on hand,” said Cynthia Slater, local NAACP president.
The local Democratic Party also is encouraging absentee ballot voting during the pandemic.
The Minority Elected Officials of Volusia County also is encouraging voters to register and hit the polls, especially African Americans and other minorities.
The Minority Elected Officials, like the NAACP, is concerned with voter turnout.
Bob Dylan once commented that “hearing Odetta on record turned me on to folk singing.”
The post Odetta Gordon: Citizen of the World first appeared on Post News Group.
Born Arch Colson Whitehead on November 6, 1969, novelist Colson Whitehead spent his formative years in Manhattan, New York with his parents, Arch and Mary Anne Whitehead, who owned a recruiting firm, and three siblings. Of his childhood, he has said that he preferred reading science fiction and fantasy and watching horror films. He attended Trinity School in New York, NY, and later, Harvard University in Massachusetts where he studied English and Comparative Literature. At Harvard, Whitehead became friends with classmate Kevin Young, a poet and current director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. After graduating with a B.A. in 1991, Whitehead worked for the Village Voice as a music, book, and television critic. He left the paper in the late nineties and has since taught at several universities including Columbia, University of Houston in Texas, and Princeton in New Jersey. He is married to the literary agent, Julie Barer, with whom he has two children.
To date, Whitehead has published a total of eight books. His six novels include The Intuitionist (1999); John Henry Days (2001); Apex Hides the Hurt (2006); Sag Harbor (2009); Zone One (2011); and The Underground Railroad (2016). His two works of nonfiction include a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York (2003), and a memoir, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death (2011). The Intuitionist has been compared to Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, and established Whitehead as a talented writer early in his career. The novel is both speculative crime story and a parable about racial progress. It follows Lila Mae Watson, an Intuitionist elevator inspector, an affiliation of inspectors at odds with the Empiricists. Whitehead writes across a variety of fictional genres including horror (Zone One), social realism (Sag Harbor), absurdist fiction (John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt), and fabulist fiction (The Underground Railroad).
The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award in 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Juneteenth Virtual Unity Rally Against Racism
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The NAACP, The League United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Urban League of Texas will host a Juneteenth Virtual Unity Rally Against Racism on Saturday, June 20th 2020 from 12 pm to 1:30 pm.
They will be joined by Senator Royce West and Dallas Cowboy Hall of Famer, Emmitt Smith.
The rally will focus on key issues including racism, new legislation, including the HEROES ACT, and overcoming barriers to voting during this health and economic crisis.
Key speakers for the rally will be Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Senator Royce West, and Attorney Domingo Garcia.
Texas was the most remote of the slave states, and the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, was not enforced there until after the Civil War had ended.
Living life in a body coated with oils and butters, relief from the drought.
My Black body will not be used as a shield or weapon today.
This body is what happens when love enters the space.
Today my steps will be ordered like a deep bass line, representing the heartbeat of the ancestors who aren’t here.
This Juneteenth and every day, I want—we want to live.
Initiative to Include Radio Ads, Digital PSAs, Voter Outreach “Caravan” in 11 Key States Today, Black Voters Matter Fund (BVMF) announced a major voter outreach ...
By Cash Michaels and Peter Grear, Greater Diversity News If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November. So says Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving
