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Miller was well positioned to validate that story line. As a former marine from the Appalachian South, he appealed to blue-collar voters who were reconsidering their hereditary fealty to a Democratic Party that, since the 1960s, had grown more dovish and more liberal. “What has happened to the party I’ve …

It has been revealed that the two Black women who were arrested after vandalizing Black Lives Matter Murals at different locations in New York City are actually conservative, anti-abortion attention seekers who have pulled similar stunts in other locations in the past. According to the New York Daily News, Bevelyn …

Joy Reid is on a mission. The journalist and MSNBC host (born Joy-Ann Lomena) is the first Black woman to anchor a cable primetime news show. But beyond making history, she’s using her platform to cultivate change in broadcast television–an industry where women of color represent just 12.6% of local …

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) It’s truly disheartening how quickly the American judicial system works to lock Black youth up. If you had any skepticism about how efficiently the school-to-prison pipeline works, the case of a 15-year-old girl in Michigan who was sent to juvenile detention for not doing her homework should …

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. RIAN DUNDON / ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT The deployment of federal forces against protesters in Portland, …

Some Americans might need to rethink their summer vacation plans. Bahamas announced on Sunday (July 19) it will shut off visitors from the United States, because of the U.S.’s skyrocketing cases of COVID-19. According to Newsweek, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said that all airports and seaports—to and from the …

Share0 Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (Image: Twitter) A Republican governor stated in a radio interview late last week that children have to go back to school in the fall and that some of them will get COVID-19 but they will “get over it,” according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. With …

Photo: William Thomas (Getty Images) If Hilton Hotels truly has the “zero-tolerance” policy against racism and discrimination they claim to have, why is it that its hotel staff members are still constantly being accused of racism and discrimination? The popular hotel chain is currently the target of several lawsuits filed …

This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after a time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, …

On Monday (June 20), workers rallied with organized labor to protest systemic racism and economic inequality. Tens of thousands of employees from the service industry, fast-food chains, and the gig economy in 160 cities walked off the job for the “Strike for Black Lives” in order to seek better treatment …