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Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Push On Voting Rights
In a speech in Tulsa, the president gently called out two Democratic senators who have opposed eliminating the filibuster.
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Tulsa race massacre survivors Viola Fletcher (right) and Hughes Van Ellis (second from right) watch as President Joe Biden speaks at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa on Tuesday during a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the massacre.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday placed Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of his administration’s efforts to pass voting rights legislation and promised to battle an “unprecedented assault on our democracy” from Republican-controlled state legislatures.
A Texas state representative implored Sen. Joe Manchin to change his mind about not supporting filibuster reform, and said Republicans are going destroy the country one state at a time.
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June 1 marked the 100-year anniversary of when a white mob slaughtered roughly 300 black residents of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street neighborhood, known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. It was a terrible day in American history that had never been repeated.