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Minnesota To Launch First Office For Missing & Murdered Black Women, Girls
Minnesota is set to launch the nation’s first Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls, NPR reports.
Over the past couple of...
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A long-awaited report by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee on maternal deaths in the state was released Thursday night, confirming the...
Black Iowa Students Forced To Sit In The Back Of The Bus After Dispute...
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Hakeem Jeffries Expected To Be Chosen As The First Black House Minority Leader
A historic vote is set for Wednesday afternoon to give House Democrats their first Black leader.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is a graduate of New York...
Louisiana Republican Officials Are Asking The U.S. Supreme Court To Define Who Counts As...
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Black Women Are Holding Donald Trump Accountable
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Madam C.J. Walker, The First U.S. Self-Made Female Millionaire, Gets Her Own Barbie
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Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Voting Law Is Constitutional, Federal Court Rules
A Jim Crow-era provision of the Mississippi constitution designed to disfranchise Black voters is constitutional, a federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday.
The case deals...
Grand Jury Declines To Indict Woman In Emmett Till Killing
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly...
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TikTok Ban Is Being Fast-Tracked In Congress. What Does That Mean?
TikTok may face a crossroads sooner than later, with a divest-or-ban bill getting fast-tracked in Congress.
The bill, which would require TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance...
Organizers Say Colorado Abortion Access Amendment Has Enough Signatures To Make 2024 Election Ballot
The Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom coalition, which is working to get a constitutional amendment on the state's ballot that would enshrine abortion access,...
NAIA Bans Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports
Athletes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will only be allowed to compete in women's sports if they were assigned the female...