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Provided Bakari Sellers will deliver a talk titled “Education, Civil Rights and Equality: Cornerstones for Our Future” at the 39th Expressions of King’s Legacy on Thursday, Jan. 28.
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New York Times bestselling author, who was once the youngest African-American elected official in the nation, will serve as the keynote speaker at Rochester Institute of Technology’s annual celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Bakari Sellers will deliver a talk titled “Education, Civil Rights and Equality: Cornerstones for Our Future” at the 39th Expressions of King’s Legacy. The virtual event is free and open to the public, taking place on Zoom from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28.
Kelly Loefflerâs Familiar Dog Whistle
Her attacks on her opponent Rev. Raphael Warnock echo a 150-year history of fearmongering.
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Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) addresses the crowd during a rally with fellow Republican Sen. David Perdue, December 5, 2020, in Valdosta, Georgia. Ã
Sen. Kelly Loeffler has, by now,
poured several million dollars into attack ads, as she attempts to save her job in the Georgia runoff election. The most memorable and cartoonish of them paint the Rev. Raphael Warnock, her Democratic opponent, as a shadowy âagent of changeâ who must be stopped in order to âsave America.â This is, of course, a badly concealed effort to keep the flames of white paranoia lit. Like most dog whistles, it echoes attacks made by the countryâs chest-beating segregationists of the past.