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OP-ED: No Bridge too Far — Remembering Congressman John Lewis and the Fight Still Ahead
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It comes to this: Americans are being cut out of the process by other Americans. A great victory, fought for on bloody streets and across bloody bridges, a score settled and signed into law all those years ago has been compromised in the courts. Time to despair? Nope. It sounds to
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Organizations Demand Congress to Act to Protect Voter Rights
Congress needs to act immediately to ensure safe and free elections in November, according to several activist organizations that fear voting rights are in danger.
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California Moves One Step Closer to Granting Parolees Right to Vote Voice and Viewpoint
Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Assemblymember Kevin McCarty’s (D-Sacramento) Assembly Constitutional Amendment 6 (ACA 6) passed out of the California State Senate last week. The bill, known as the Free the Vote Act, will seek voters approval in the 2020 November election to restore
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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper
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IN MEMORIAM: John Lewis, an American Hero and Moral Leader Alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Dies at 80 | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 1965 Selma march was led by John Lewis. Lewis was perhaps the last remaining voice of moral authority from the civil rights era. Voting rights remains a challenge in the U.S. Lewis was on the front lines of that effort which was resisted by white racists in the South attempting
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Republicans will be aggressively harassing voters at the polls. They call it ‘ballot security’
​By now, it’s painfully obvious that Donald Trump and the Republicans are blatantly sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service in order to deliberately delay mail-in ballots for this upcoming election, despite an ongoing pandemic. Trump even admitted to...
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Voting Delays, Long Lines Bring Chaos to Georgia Primaries
ATLANTA (AP) — Voters waited as long as five hours to cast ballots in some Georgia precincts on Tuesday amid reports of voting machine malfunctions and high turnout in a state that President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are expected to hotly contest in the fall. The states chief elections
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Super Bowl Champion Patrick Mahomes Joins LeBron James More Than A Vote Organization
James announced Monday (Jun.22) night that Super Bowl champion, Patrick Mahomes is the latest big-name athlete to join the organization whose primary goal is to energize and inform African-American voters.
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New Daily Kos/Civiqs poll: Majority views police mistreatment of Black Americans as systemic problem
The best antidote to hot takes is hard data, and the   latest Daily Kos/Civiqs poll   is here with your cure.   This survey of 1,472 adults was conducted online from June 27-30 and reveals that 59%
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(BPRW) Why Vote? Because Your Life and Happiness May Depend On It | Press releases
(BPRW) Why Vote? Because Your Life and Happiness May Depend On It (Black PR Wire) Why vote when you are just one person among millions? You're about to learn 13…
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Patagonia The Latest Company To Pull All Advertising From Facebook & Instagram
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Facebook, Twitter Suspend Trump Campaign Accounts For False COVID-19 Claim

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Latinos follow Black Americans in being devastated by police violence, data shows
“Of course the years of systemic racism and voicelessness are not near the same level the Black community has been forced to endure,” AL DÍA News’ Ericka Conant rightfully notes, “but the recent deaths of multiple Latinx individuals at the hands of police
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Biden says it's 'a battle for the soul of the nation,' while Trump's America has no soul
accused Bubba Wallace, the only African American NASCAR driver in the top . Lee if you’re an African American.” Trump, on the other hand
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COVID-19 and States Voting Preparedness
Americans should “never again be asked to choose between performing one of the most hallowed obligations and privileges of citizenship — voting for our representatives at the local, state and federal levels — and our health,” a mass group of health experts says.
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Beyoncé's Message to America: "Vote Like Your Life Depends on It" | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "You're proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain,” Beyoncé said as she accepted the award, adding, “I’m encouraging you to continue to take action, continue to change and dismantle a racist and unequal system. We have to vote like our life depends on
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Far-right Patriots beclown themselves on the Fourth of July with two hoax rallies
America’s far-right “Patriots” explored new ways to snooker themselves this holiday weekend in two rallies, both ostensibly aimed at attacking the “radical left,” on opposite sides of the country. In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hundreds of militiamen...
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MIA At DNC: Black Folks We’d Still Like To See Speak At The Democratic National Convention
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Petition Calls for Renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge in Rep. John Lewis’ Honor
The death of Rep. John Lewis has renewed calls to rename the Confederacy-related Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in the civil rights leader’s honor. The bridge's namesake, Edmund Pettus, was a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, who had a habit of getting caught by
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LeBron James Helping Florida Ex-Felons Pay Fees So They Can Vote
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ACLU's David Cole: "If Trump seeks to stay in power after losing the election," we'll be ready - African American News Today - EIN News
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Yes She Can: Senator Kamala Harris | Afram News
President Trump derogatorily refers to Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe.” However, with the selection of Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate, Sleepy Joe has awakened a formidable political giant that will with the blessings of God redeem the soul of America.
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The 'Conscience of the Congress', U. S. Rep. John Lewis, Dies at 80 - Voice and Viewpoint
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) - He was the son of a sharecropper who came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress” and has been described by a list of other heroic terms: From the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who called him the “founding father of American Democracy” to President Barack
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Voter Suppression Goes to College
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
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Stacey Abrams On Wisconsin, Voting and The Future of America
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz As a child, Stacey Abrams’ parents used to take her and her siblings to the voting booth whenever it was an election day. It was one of her first introductions to civic engagement and politics. Years down the line, Abrams is known as a voting rights
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Trump Administration Ramps Up Efforts to Dismantle Post Office | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “They have withheld that money. They have broken the law,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass told BlackPressUSA during a livestream interview last month. Other Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), and Rep. Hank Johnson
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By Kammi Foote Kim Alexander Special to CalMatters The November election is just five months away, yet there is still uncertainty about how Californians will be voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counties and voters need guidance now, before we run out of time to make necessary changes to have
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OP-ED: Our Battle to Protect Democracy’s Greatest Tool: It’s on us to honor the legacy of Representative John Lewis.
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