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Anying Guo, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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When Myah Genung saw the disastrous interview between The Bachelor host Chris Harrison and former franchise star Rachel Lindsay, she was reminded of a saying: I m shocked, but I m not surprised. If you even just pay attention to some of the interviews that Chris Harrison has given over the years, his responses were always in defense of why (they didn t have a lead of color) instead of how this is something that needs to happen, says Genung, who works as an associate director of industry relations at the University of Southern California s Annenb
Book World: How a Black man escaped a lynch mob - then sued its members
Marjoleine Kars, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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By Ben Montgomery
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In 2019, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named after the 14-year-old Chicago boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The legislation would at last make lynching a federal crime. The bill passed in the House only to stall in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., thought its definition of lynching was too broad and prevented the measure from passing, drawing the ire of Democratic senators Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.). America had missed an opportunity, Booker charged, to acknowledge its racist past and look forward to a better future.
Mobile clinics, free rides have done little so far to improve vaccine equity in D.C. region
Antonio Olivo, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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Health care workers wait for coronavirus vaccinations at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax on Jan. 2. The county is now offering rides to the center, hoping the transportation program will help more people get vaccinated in communities that have been hard hit by the virus.Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson.
Inside Fairfax County s government center one recent morning, elderly residents streamed in to get their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, underscoring a problem that has vexed officials across the greater Washington region.
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Not for the first time, Serena Williams fans are upset with ESPN analyst s racially coded commentary
The Washington Post
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For most of her life, Brittney Cooper has watched tennis, bearing witness to the sport s brightest stars, from Monica Seles and John McEnroe to Venus Williams and Coco Gauff.
So when Serena Williams faced off Wednesday against Naomi Osaka, there was no doubt what Cooper would be doing: watching Williams, an all-time great, play bright young star Osaka. It was the next chapter in an exciting rivalry, one cemented by a controversial 2018 U.S. Open championship that Osaka won.