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Georgia’s Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts. History Shows They Can Work. Dontaye Carter and daughter Kyleigh Carter look around the capitol building as demonstrators hold a sit-in inside of the capitol building in opposition of House Bill 531 on March 8, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. Megan Varner / Getty Images Georgia’s new voting law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25, is part of a nationwide voter suppression effort involving hundreds of bills. No serious analyst buys the Republican claim that voter fraud is widespread: it’s virtually nonexistent. The real rationale f...

Former MLB Commissioner Criticizes League’s Georgia Boycott Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent on Tuesday criticized the league’s current commissioner, Robert Manfred, for moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia, in protest of election reforms enacted by the Peach State’s governor and legislature. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Vincent argued that Manfred likely made the decision to boycott Atlanta without first examining the substance of the election reforms. Vincent also lamented that the sport being used as a weapon in a political and cultural wa...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   (Photo : Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent 1989: MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent walks the field before the NLCS Game one of the 1989 Baseball Playoffs in the 1989 season. Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent criticized the unnecessary Georgia boycott by Robert Manfred, who is the MLB's current commissioner who authorized moving its All-Star game from Atlanta in Georgia. One of the reasons why the Baseball league started the boycott is because it objected to the state's election reform law. It f...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Robert Manfred decided to move the All-Star Game on his own after holding extensive discussions with voting rights groups associated with Lebron James, Stacey Abrams and Rev. Al Sharpton, sources familiar with the move tell Fox News.  Abrams and Sharpton told the commissioner players would boycott the game if not. Sources say that Abrams’ current stance, that she is disappointed about the Georgia boycott, is suspect as she was a key player in the decision. James has pub...

Safety, right? I mean, there are lots of other things you might think of as you take your seat – the leg room, the food menu, whether the WiFi works, how unspeakably annoying the stranger sitting next to you might turn out to be, or even worse, if the cabin steward will be one of those ghastly 'comedian' types cracking jokes and dancing their way through the safety routine? But ultimately, the one constant thought process most of us when we board an aircraft that's going to fly very fast very high up in the air is a simple one: 'Please get me to my destination in one piece.'