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Texas Democrats have brought the fight for a new Voting Rights Act to DC

Texas State Representative Senfronia Thompson remembers when her grandparents had to save pennies so they could pay a poll tax in order to vote. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, which outlawed Jim Crow restrictions like literacy tests and poll taxes designed to keep Black Americans from voting. But 56 years after President Lyndon Johnson signed that landmark legislation, Representative Thompson has found herself in the middle of another heated battle over voting rights. This year alone, after Donald Trump falsely claimed he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud, Republicans in 18 states have passed at least

College Football Could Lose One of Its Few Black Coaches

By Noah A. McGee Nearly two years ago, Mel Tucker signed a 10-year, $95 million contract to stay on as the head football coach at Michigan State University. He instantly became one of the highest-paid coaches in all of college sports and easily the highest-paid Black coach in college athletics. But two years later, in a sport where there is already a small number of Black coaches, they are set to lose another one. On Sunday, Michigan State announced that Tucker will be suspended without pay after he was accused of sexual harassment by a rape activist, according to USA Today. The woman

Court strikes down Alabama congressional map for diluting the power of Black voters

By Summer Concepcion A panel of federal judges on Tuesday struck down a new congressional map created by Alabama Republicans that includes only one majority-Black district, defying a Supreme Court order. “We are disturbed by the evidence that the State delayed remedial proceedings but ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy,” the three judges of the U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama wrote in a 217-page order Tuesday. “And we are struck by the extraordinary circumstance we face.” “We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring that its electoral

Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., say they expect that a trial in their election interference case would last four months – not including jury selection – and they’d expect to call more than 150 witnesses. The disclosures, made today in the case’s first televised hearing, underscore the complexity of the sweeping racketeering probe. Jury selection in another Georgia RICO case, prosecuting the rapper Young Thug and others, has taken months. Wednesday’s hearing, in front of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, is to consider certain defendants’ efforts to sever their case from other defendants. The hearing is being broadcast

Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson announce $10 million Maui relief fund

By Drew Weisholtz Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have teamed up to help people whose lives have been shattered by the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. The duo has launched the People’s Fund of Maui, in which cash will go directly to people whose lives have been affected by the blazes. Winfrey and Johnson kicked off the campaign by donating $10 million. “Collaborating closely with an esteemed advisory board and support from the local community and respected elders, this new fund will serve as a bridge to provide cash directly to the families and individuals affected so that they can personally

60 Years After The 1st March on Washington Bernice King Says Keep Fighting

By Jessica Washington Sixty years after the original March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one could easily argue that the clock has begun to turn backward. The Supreme Court has successfully eroded decades of precedent protecting marginalized groups. And authoritarianism and white supremacy appear as deeply rooted as ever. But even in the midst of what feels to many like our darkest hour, Dr. Bernice King says we need to keep fighting. “My father spoke about it as a part of a multi-generational process,” Dr. King told The Root, referencing her late father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The things that we are fighting for, in some form or

After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns

Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. Students reported him, a campus police officer approached and he sped off in his vehicle having never identified himself. The shootings dredged up memories of another infamous racist attack in the city nearly 60 years ago known as Ax Handle Saturday. In that incident, a mob of Ku Klux Klan members armed with ax handles chased and beat 17-year-old Nat Glover after he left his part-time job washing

New International African American Museum opens at prominent site of the slave trade

By Scott Tong The new International African American Museum , which opened last month in Charleston South Carolina, stands at a location that is itself drenched in history. The museum is on Gadsden’s Wharf, where ships carrying enslaved people from Africa arrived to bring them into bondage in America. Gadsden’s Wharf was one of the nation’s largest trans-Atlantic slave ports, says Tonya Matthews, president of the museum. Historians estimate nearly half of enslaved Africans who came to America arrived and entered at the port complex in Charleston. “It was a major point of commerce,” Matthews says. “And a big part of that commerce

16-Year-Old HBCU Grad Makes History As Youngest Full-Time Teacher

By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman Shania Shakura Muhammad is making history in the field of education. The 16-year-old earned numerous degrees and is the youngest full-time teacher in the U.S. According to Afrotech, the young achiever earned her Bachelor’s degree with honors two years ago from Oklahoma Community College and Langston University, an HBCU. She continued her academic pursuits to obtain two more degrees in specialties such as child development. This background led her to pursue her already groundbreaking career in teaching. Upon accomplishing her most recent academic milestone, the HBCU graduate announced that her journey would not have been paved without the

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