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Letter to the Editor | Afro

By Natasha Lawrence Dear Editor, I am a US Citizen and Spouse of a Foreign National. I feel my family is being left behind as bills with Immigration Reform provisions are being introduced, like the Farm Workers Modernization Act. The waiver language in this bill provides relief for minor unlawful presence for Farm Laborer's while […]

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By AFRO Staff Republican-backed bills that would limit weekend voting in Georgia are being decried as a direct attempt to suppress Black voters—much like the Jim Crow laws of yesteryear. “If you don’t want to be associated with the Jim Crow South, stop leading the charge to take us back

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