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Judge denies lawsuits request to have 200,000 people restored to Georgia voter rolls before runoff Groups argued the voters removed from the rolls a year ago had their registrations canceled in part on the basis of inaccurate records. Author: Jonathan Raymond (11Alive) Updated: 5:34 PM EST December 16, 2020 ATLANTA — A federal judge on Wednesday denied a lawsuit seeking to restore 200,000 people to Georgias voter rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, though...

Civil rights leaders demand independent review of Jacksonvilles officer-involved shooting of Devon Gregory The Sheriffs Office has not specified the violation that saw a Zone 4 task force pull the car over. Author: Florida Times-Union, Dan Scanlan Published: 7:54 PM EST December 10, 2020 Updated: 7:54 PM EST December 10, 2020 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A national civil rights leader is demanding an independent investigation into the Nov. 17 officer-...

A national civil rights leader is demanding an independent investigation into the Nov. 17 officer-involved shooting that ended when a Black 18-year-old shot himself, then was fired at by four Jacksonville officers after a tense standoff on San Juan Avenue. Bishop Tavis Grant, national field secretary for the Rainbow Push Coalition, is joining local civil rights groups in pushing for the release of all bodycam video from that night as well as engaging city leaders in discussions about the c...

>> we have black racists today lets learn our history, lets be proud of it, lets realize youre the greatest country in mankind and the freest black americans in our world. >> raymond: i have to leave it there. thank you much, gentlemen. politics taking center stage in the democratic party.k today mayor pete courted african-american voters at jesse jacksons rainbow push coalition.n. its become a popular stop for the 2020 democrats but pete buttigieg made it as a time to make a push. >> costs the ...

Democratic candidate mayor pete buttigieg posted big fundraising numbers this week, but now hes facing the challenge of trouble back home. hes been asked to recuse himself of any decisions in the face of the shooting incident of a black man. buttigieg spoke today in front of the rainbow push coalition in chicago. >> what have you learned in this process you didnt know before? >> first of all, i dont make disciplinary decisions. i would expect them to understand that one of the things i really ne...

In a favor of overcoming the state initiated segregation. >> thats former vice president joe biden speaking at the rainbow push coalition in chicago and he continues to respond to the opposition to busing which was a flash point between him and senator kamala harris in the debate. in a new poll, biden is at 33%, dropping five points from the begin of last week. senator bernie sanders remains level at 19%. senator harris has doubled her support, up six points to 12 points. elizabeth warren at thi...

On the issue of bussing, obviously that is personal to me. i remember getting on that yellow bus, you know. and so many of us do, and interestingly enough, since ive, you know, talked about it, people who i dont know have reached out. they also, you know, especially in the 70s all across the country, all across our country, people were bussed. people just like me. >> former vice president joe biden continued to respond to the controversy over his opposition to bussing. it was a flash point in th...

>> so senator elizabeth warren was back on the meeld today. >> im with bernie on medicare for all. ill tell you why. i spent a big chunk of my life studying why people go broke, and a big part of in is about health care bills. its not just health care bills for people who doesnt have insurance, its health care bills for people who do have insurance. >> a couple things, hilary it was elizabeth warren at the rainbow push today, it was joe biden yesterday trying to either better explain his positio...

Candidates are back out campaigning after their first presidential debates. >> today weve got tulsi gabbard, amy klobuchar elizabeth warren at the rainbow push convention in chicago. in the meantime, julian castro will be at a detention center in clint, texas, after joining a protest outside a similar facility in south florida, yesterday. >> natasha chen joins us now. today castro will visit one of the facilities where migrant children were reportedly being held in some pretty poor conditions. w...

Known what he already had said a week or so later. honestly, joe biden put his foot in his mouth a week or so ago when he brought up the whole section about segregationist. she shoved his foot down his throat. >> laura: she didnt meanings that they were both democrats. the democrat senators in the south is a convenient fact a lot of democrats today want to sweep under the rug. joe biden tried to clean up what he said last night at a rainbow push event today. lets watch. >> i heard and listened t...