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One in five Americans struggles to read, and new laws may prevent them from getting the help they need to vote.

As a new wave of restrictions makes voting harder for people who struggle to read — now 1 in 5 Americans — people like Olivia Coley-Pearson have taken up the fight, even if it makes her a target.

Khloe Kardashian dropped in on Instagram on Tuesday evening to share photos from her prior night out. Shed stepped out in a little black dress to support friends Olivia Pearson and Natalie Halcro.

The most decorated 100m sprinter of all time, the Jamaican athlete reflects on her wins, motherhood and her hopes for the future of West Indian women in track.

Jaws dropped as Kim posed up a storm, working her envy-inducing body for the camera, during her beach shoot last week.

Athletes have been competing at several events recently.

It proves the organization she was speaking to, the naacp, is race of the. he uses this portion of the clip as evidence. he says the audience applauds racist language. listen. >> he had come to me for help. what he didnt know, while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was i was trying to decide just how much help i was going to give him. >> well, did you see or hear the crowd bursting into applause? you can decide for yourself. we decided to ask five of the peopl...

With this surfacing like this about it being a racial issue, all of the publicity that has come up about it, it lets us know that our work is not done. we still have a long way to go. >> listen, i appreciate all of you joining together on this evening and talking about what you heard and experienced at this night. mary coley, hal presley, olivia pearson, reverend rudolph porter, and yvonne lott. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. up next tonight, how the smearing of shirley sherr...

Character. >> if you were doing a sermon about this, what is the lesson here for all of us, in this incident, in the aftermath to it? whats the take away? >> let the work ive done speak for me, not for myself, but for others. help somebody. >> i would like to add, if i may, the message is still -- is also to let america know, to let all of us know that our work is not done. with this surfacing like this about it being a racial issue, all of the publicity that has come up about it, it lets us kno...

this can happen to anyone. and its not right. imagine it happening to you. the truth is, it can happen to anyone and the truth does matter. we live in an age where that simple fact is increasingly lost. as people on the right and the left, people view things through the prism of politics and ideology, seek to score points by scoring scalps. cable news is part of the problem. theres no doubt about that. the left and the right have their own anchors who only report on the stories that su...