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Gaps between Black and white voter participation persist nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act promised protections for all voters.

Bill that requires places with history of discrimination to be under federal supervision passes 219-212 – but could fail in the Senate

The Lingering Influence of Revolutionary Political Discourse From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era Abstract The Civil War was a seminal moment in the historical development in the United States. The American Revolution may have created the U.S. as a sovereign nation, but the Civil War helped to determine what kind of nation America would become. The Reconstruction era, from Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to Hayes's removal of federal troops from the South in 1877, further defined how exactly the U.S. would evolve into the nation that it is today. By examining the attitudes towar...

miles of tweets, texts, one million doorbells wrong, phone calls made in order to bring us here this evening and i have had a chance to talk to people from all walks of life. they shared with me their dreams for their futures. there hopes for moving our country forward. they told me of their frustrations with gridlock, that they wanted to make real progress, creating an economy that works for everyone, that we put real gun safety measures on the books, that we protect a woman's right to choose. [applause] i am going to the united states senate to build a bold and bright future filled...

on the other hand, the war on coal is exactly what is needed. war on coal? war on coal ultimately amounts o war on energy and war on american families. and the regulations that president obama announced today are unprecedented, executive actions aimed at punishing industry critical to energy production, particularly the coal industry. these regulations would not pass the united states congress, not the republican house and not even the democratic senate. president obama is trying to accomplish through executive regulations that which he cannot accomplish legislatively or electric tor...