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During the final week of Black History Month, I wanted to continue to look at the people who helped shape the Voting Rights Act, the powerful 1965 law that offered unprecedented protection for voting rights in America. As the country faces another surge of efforts to make it harder to vote, it’s a reminder of how hard Black Americans had to fight to gain and protect the rights to vote that are in place now.
Last week, I wrote about Bloody Sunday, the March 1965 protest that led directly to the Voting Rights Act. The heroes of that march – people like John Lewis, Hosea Williams and Martin Luther King Jr – have become lions of American history. But until recently, one of the most overlooked people in the march was
The last time Marco Rubio looked this uncomfortable in the national spotlight, he was stuck on robotic repeat in a Republican debate, being pummelled by Chris Christie. Or maybe it was when he lunged for a bottle of water as he sweated his way through a response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, back in 2013. Either way, on Sunday morning Florida’s senior Republican senator squirmed again as he was grilled on the possibility of a.
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“Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury; no progress, only exhausting outrage; no nation, only a state of chaos,” Joe Biden declared after taking the Presidential oath on 20 January. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the
United States of America.” Helping to amplify that sentiment? The colour palette worn by the most notable female politicians in Washington DC before and during the inauguration.
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Famously, suffragettes used purple in their badges to represent dignity alongside green for hope and white for purity. Just as significantly, purple has long been acknowledged as a “bipartisan” colour – merging the blue associated with the Democratic party and the red of the Republican. In her memoir
Dubai: A Dubai firm has been unwittingly caught in a multimillion dollar face mask racket allegedly orchestrated by a decorated US war hero facing charges of fraud back home.
Brian Kolfage, 38, who lost both legs and his right hand in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq, made international headlines in August this year when he was arrested and charged by US authorities in connection with an online fund-raising campaign he founded to help build the US-Mexico border wall.
Steve Bannon, 66, the former chief strategist of US president Donald Trump and the mastermind of his 2016 election win, was also arrested for his alleged role in the fraud, as were two others Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, US court documents show. They are currently on bail.