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Senator manchin that the 15th amendment to the united states constitution which protected voting rights for everyone which established the opportunity for everyone to have the right to vote but passed in a partisan way. every single democrat in the 1860s after the civil war voted against the 15th amendment. they voted all against it. so the idea that we need republicans on board in order to make sure that isnt divisive when the country supports it at large means you keep a principled piece of le...

Than those who are opposed to it, be because we believe in the 13th and 14th and 15th amendment. we believe in the promises of equality. we know we cant get there if we cant confront and talk honestly about any following. >> it is not a doctrine or manuscript. one way of describing it is looking at a critical eye at race and institution. lets take an example from history. the declaration of independence say all men are created equal. a critical race theorist would note, slavery persisted for alm...

Rescuing an Off Off Broadway Theater With a Storied Past Preservationists hope to save the 13th Street Repertory Company building, with a little help from the Underground Railroad. New research shows that the 1840s rowhouse at 50 West 13th Street was owned by Jacob Day, an abolitionist businessman, who was one of the wealthiest Black residents of 19th-century New York City.Credit...Katherine Marks for The New York Times March 12, 2021 When Edith O’Hara, the mother hen and indefatigable leade...

An African-American family in Southern Mississippi in 1895.Credit...Sepia Times/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images This is the story of how a bill to save the vote and preserve a semblance of democracy for millions of Americans died at the hands of an intransigent, reactionary minority in the Senate, which used the filibuster to do its dirty work. In the summer of 1890, the state of Mississippi held its second constitutional convention of the post-Civil War era. The first, in 1868, was an...

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Mensah to plead the 5th if forced to testify in new hearing on deadly shooting If a district attorney "refuses or is unavailable to issue a complaint," Wisconsin statute allows a circuit judge to hold John Doe hearings to determine if there is probable cause to believe a person has committed a crime. Share Updated: 9:30 PM CST Feb 25, 2021 SOURCE: GoFundMe Mensah to plead the 5th if forced to testify in new hearing on deadly shooting If a district attorney "refuse...

The Biden administration changed its position on an upcoming Supreme Court appeal dealing with Arizona’s electoral integrity laws, ...

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified today (2/3) in 1870. It established the right of all people to vote regardless of their "race" or "color."Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican was the first Black man elected following the Amendment, but Democrats tried to block him from serving.

>> yeah. >> actually. so, if you look at the last 60 years or so and watching congressman lewis, you cant help but go back to sunday, march 7th, 1965, on the bridge when he was leading peaceful marchers across that bridge for the right to vote, the fundamental right that had been guarante guaranteed, allegedly, in the 15th amendment, but has been denied by my home region. and if you think about it, in an interesting way, you know, we have a debate going on, where do you begin this, when we were ...

"impeachment: an american history." also happened to have written the introduction for the house intel committees report on its investigation into donald trump and ukraine. whats going to become increasingly an important document in the life of this country. jon, what does it say that in our lifetime weve witnessed two of the three impeachments in american history? does that mean anything? >> well, almost three, right? >> yeah. >> actually. so if you look at the last 60 years or so and watching ...