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At least 250 new laws have been proposed in 43 states to limit mail, early in-person and Election Day voting.

Fred Hampton, left, and Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in "Judas and the Black Messiah" The young freedom fighters of the Black Panther Party, as brilliantly portrayed in the film Judas and the Black Messiah, were most certainly “uncompromising,” as described in Brian W. Major’s recent People’s World review. The recently released film, directed by Shaka King and starring Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfiel, Dominique Fishback, and Martin Sheen, unfolds a story of FBI and Chicago Police D...

1 . 22 . 21 Sometime between my arrival at college over half a century ago and my departure four years later, the world shifted. It was impossible to miss and hard, as we would say today, to “process” how visions of a Great Society and a Second Reconstruction yielded riots and cultural revolution. America at the start of the Sixties looked the successful going concern. By the end it looked a shambles. The public markers of the Sixties included omnibus civil rights legislation, invention of ...

The nation shall overcome After four dark years of hate-filled leadership, the threat of white supremacist violence will persist. Still, there’s reason to be hopeful. By Abdallah Fayyad Globe Staff,Updated January 20, 2021, 3:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Union troops of Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery assembled at Fort Stevens in 1865, one year after Confederate soldiers attacked Washington, D.C.Library of Congress WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump incited a mob attack ...

Ms. Hornaday’s thesis is that normal people (specifically white male Christians) are bad. Her case in point: the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King: In fact, the White, male, Christian version of normal was precisely what J. Edgar Hoover was going for when he recruited for the FBI, the investigative agency he ran with an iron fist for nearly 50 years.… Hornaday [Tweet her] says of the 1965–1974 FBI TV Series  I certainly don’t remember any episode where they wiretapped and bu...

Opinion: Martin Luther King Jr.s legacy demands truth before unity CNN 1/17/2021 Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph © Afro Newspaper/Gado/Archive Photos/Getty Images Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures emphatically during a speech at a Chicago Freedom Movement rally in Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1966. This years holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., happening in the wake of of a White mobs sacking of the US Capitol and an unprecedented second impeachment of ...

Opinion: Capitol assault echoes Civil War-era insurrections Laura Oren FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A flag that reads "Treason" is visible on the ground in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Andrew Harnik, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3 A member of the mob of Trump supporters carries the Confederate flag inside the Capitol building as Congress met to President-elect Joe Bidens v...