Source: Wells Family GoFundMe / Screenshot On Wednesday, Nolan Wells’ family met with Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath and agreed to inspect his phone together. According to AP, the agreement comes after the family previously alleged that messages on Nolan’s phone had been deleted before they got it back. Ben Crump, the family’s […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty On Wednesday, Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and Arndrea Waters King announced plans to have another March on Washington in August to defend voting rights. NBC News reports that a coalition led by Sharpton’s National Action Network and several other labor and civil rights groups will host the March […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Voting is the linchpin of our democracy. But as the nation nears its 250th birthday, it is appropriate to question not only the strength of the franchise, but whether we are now living in an illusion of democracy itself. To assess democracy in this moment without the benefit of a spiritual […]
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I am not so sure. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, the candidates with the policy agendas that would most help Black Americans pay for health care, afford college, and otherwise thrive were Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, not Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Deval Patrick. Joe Biden’s administration prioritized policies to advance racial equality much […]
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“This decision comes out of FDA, and we trust the process there. And I’ve been told by Marty Makary that every panel that looked at that drug unanimously voted against it … because it does not appear to work,” Kennedy said to the Senate Finance Committee. This is disputed by many oncologists, who pointed out […]
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Source: karandaev / Getty As Congress deliberates the fate of the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Black communities know the devastating impact of government surveillance and invasion of privacy. The last thing Trump needs is for Congress to make it easier for him to steal our rights and punish those […]
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