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the state supreme court. and yesterday, the tennessee three faced expulsion votes fo daring to demand action afte six more children and school staff were shot to death wit an assault rifle at th nashville elementary schoo last week. a political debacle that turne into a fire storm last night after the nearly all white republican super majority vote to expel the two black lawmakers, but not the white lawmaker both president biden and forme president obama spoke out afte the traumatic sp...

that turned into a fire stor last night, after the nearly all white republican super majority voted to expel the tw black lawmakers but not th white lawmaker, both president biden and former president obama spoke out after th dramatic speeches, by stat representatives, justin jones, and just in person today, vice president harris flew into nashville to respond to the ongoing protests agains gun violence and the expulsion of the black representatives that is where we had planned t start...

general bill barr. last week, that focus will shift to the effort to pressure state legislatures to unlawfully result reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election. scheduled to appear as a witness on tuesdays georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. in the early 2021, raffensperger was thrust into the spotlight with audio and phone call between him and then president trump was released. remember, during that call, trump asked raffensperger and other georgia election admin...

Oretha Castle Haley was a central figure in New Orleans' Civil Rights Movement. Her work helped lead to the desegregation of public facilities in the city.

Either have been partially included or totally excluded from most of the good things that the state has to offer. you referenced the kkk - the kkk with a violent respons to the idea of black equality, to the idea of black freedom and we talk about this in clas a lot, about how tennessee was very quick to rejoin the union to be reconstructed, t consider itself reconstructed. but less than a year after, th war ended, you had a group o guys that -- judge -- pulaski, in tennessee, as they formed a k...

From the ferry, it looks like a sculpture. However, walk a bit further along the plank-lined path and a greater functionality comes into view. The eye-catching, waist-high structure encrusted in colorful mosaic tiles is actually a public water fountain, the first of its kind in Fire Island Pines. STAR Fountain is the brainchild of artist TM Davy, and it also serves as the centerpiece of Trailblazers Park, a new permanent public space which opened in the Fire Island Pines Harbor this past July. D...

Arts, entertainment, and fun in DC, Maryland, and Virginia July 28-31. Check out a video game exhibit, a number of festivals, and more things to do.

Arts, entertainment, and fun in DC, Maryland, and Virginia July 25-31. Dance to live music, watch the Citi Open, and more things to do this week.

Various state projects and freeways and parks. last, year a chicago suburb of evanston famously became one of the first cities to issue operations to his own black residents. they were not direct payments. they came in the form of housing grants of up to $25,000. to be awarded to 16 residents for home repairs or property costs. however, that was only phase one of a historic plan to distribute $10 million to evanstons black community. joining me now is robin route simmons. she spearheaded that pr...

As the fight for reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans stalls at the federal level, state and local officials are taking matters into their own hands. California’s Reparations Task Force released a 500-page report detailing the harms done to Black residents. The report made recommendations ranging from reforms in policing to housing grants for Black families that were forced from their homes to make way for various state projects like freeways and parks. Last year, the...