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Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration this week asked a federal court to toss out a challenge to a new congressional redistricting plan — or to at least put the lawsuit on hold while other redistricting cases are resolved.

The lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Cord Byrd filed a 29-page document Wednesday primarily contending that the constitutional challenge should be dismissed. They disputed equal-protection arguments by voting-rights groups and other plaintiffs, who say the plan intentionally discriminates against Black voters.

A silly case about a minor paperwork error could snowball into a serious threat to the right to vote.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A first-in-the-nation task force in California created to examine slavery and its impact on the Black community released an almost 500-page report on the ongoing harms caused by slavery, political disenfranchisement, segregation and other racist and discriminatory practices. The report tackles how […]

Almost alone among Golden Age freethinkers, Ingersoll’s ideas about women would not seem out of place today.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A first-in-the-nation task force in California created to examine slavery and its impact on the Black community released an almost 500-p

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - California reparations report lays out path to remedy systemic racism

In Connecticut, elections for Black Governors began in the 1750s, when slaves accompanying their owners to Hartford for the colony’s annual

California's first-of-a-kind task force on reparations has released its first report on how to remedy systemic racism.

One doesn’t know whether to see this as hilariously ironic or simply evidence of a massive lack of self-awareness.