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Black Women Leading the Fight For Voting Rights


Black Women Leading the Fight For Voting Rights
This summer has brought protests, rallies and arrests for the cause.
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 15: Melanie Campbell, CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, speaks during a news conference outside the AFL-CIO headquarters on July 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The organized labor advocates called for the Senate to repeal the filibuster to allow passage of several bills they support, including the For The People Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Act. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Alarmed by a wave of bills sweeping state legislatures around the country and a recent Supreme Court decision that critics contend will dismantle voting rights, Black women and their allies are taking courageous, coordinated steps to fight back.   ....

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The Skanner News - Group of Black Contractors Criticize Albina Vision Trust, Delays to Rose Quarter Expansion, in Letter to Governor


Group of Black Contractors Criticize Albina Vision Trust, Delays to Rose Quarter Expansion, in Letter to Governor
Published: 16 June 2021
A controversial plan to expand a major freeway through a historically Black neighborhood has not changed in the year since the city and community leaders walked away from the discussion table in protest. But with advisory committees slated to make recommendations about the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project’s highway caps to the Oregon Transportation Commission at the end of the month, some minority contractors and members of the Black community are criticizing any additional delay.
“For us the opportunity we have to change the plight of our community now is through living-wage employment and small business and entrepreneurship,” Jeff Moreland, president of Raimore Construction in Portland, told ....

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