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However long ago 2016 seems, it can serve as a signpost that helps us mark the passing of time. “A lot of our memories don’t have much of a time-tag or date linked to them at all, just a vague sense of distance,” Wilson said. “Repeating milestones like elections are …

DOJ Sends Out Federal Civil Rights Officials Nationwide To Monitor Voting Rights Act Compliance Nov. 3, 2020 — 3:27 p.m. The U.S. Justice Department is dispatching personnel to monitor voting rights in 44 jurisdictions around the country throughout Election Day to ensure they are not violated, according to a statement …

Endorsements from Black celebrities have been flying all around in the final stretch of the 2020 election madness. On Monday, Beyonce Knowles Carter officially endorsed the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris presidential ticket. The superstar entertainer shared a quick video of herself wearing a Biden-Harris face mask on Instagram with …

Photo: Matt Slocum (AP) Florida and Georgia—two crucial battleground states in the 2020 election—are rejecting mailed-in ballots from voters of color at substantially higher rates than those from white voters, according to a recent analysis by NBC News and the Democratic political data firm TargetSmart. According to NBC News, the …

The other one of us (Shuran Huang) has struggled with fitting into a society that’s not hers. Huang has lived in Singapore, Italy, Ethiopia, Japan, and other countries, where she was one of the few Chinese nationals in most of these nations. Huang moved to the United States in 2014 …

On Monday (November 2), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in a lawsuit filed by a police officer who was injured during a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The protest took place outside the police department in response to the police killing of …

Meet Kennedi Carter, the 21-Year-Old Beyoncé fan who became the youngest cover photographer in British Vogue’s history. Beyonce Knowles-Carter specifically requested that a Black woman photograph her for the cover of British Vogue, giving Kennedi Carter the opportunity of a lifetime. “I thought I wouldn’t be able to do something …

Screenshot: Detroit Free Press Two poll challengers—one wearing a Halloween mask, the other refusing to wear her face mask properly—were kicked out of a Detroit polling station on Monday as workers began processing absentee ballots from the city. As the Detroit Free Press reports, a man wearing an all-white horror-movie …

3. SOUTH CAROLINA: THE NEW SOUTH TEST Historically, Democrats have written off states in the Deep South as unwinnable. But Stacey Abrams’s electoral prowess in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race showed the party that their traditional logic might be misguided. Jaime Harrison, a young Black Democrat in South Carolina, is …

A group of protesters expressed outrage Saturday (Oct. 31) after police in Graham, North Carolina, used pepper spray to break up a march to the polls on the state’s last day of early voting.  The “I Am Change” march was marketed as an event to honor of Black people whose …