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At least 250 new laws have been proposed in 43 states to limit mail, early in-person and Election Day voting.

Fred Hampton, left, and Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in "Judas and the Black Messiah" The young freedom fighters of the Black Panther Party, as brilliantly portrayed in the film Judas and the Black Messiah, were most certainly “uncompromising,” as described in Brian W. Major’s recent People’s World review. The recently released film, directed by Shaka King and starring Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfiel, Dominique Fishback, and Martin Sheen, unfolds a story of FBI and Chicago Police Department conspiracy both bitter and telling, with profound lessons for today’s movements. It’s ...

1 . 22 . 21 Sometime between my arrival at college over half a century ago and my departure four years later, the world shifted. It was impossible to miss and hard, as we would say today, to “process” how visions of a Great Society and a Second Reconstruction yielded riots and cultural revolution. America at the start of the Sixties looked the successful going concern. By the end it looked a shambles. The public markers of the Sixties included omnibus civil rights legislation, invention of affirmative action and a war on poverty, race riots in northern cities, the assassinations of MLK an...

The nation shall overcome After four dark years of hate-filled leadership, the threat of white supremacist violence will persist. Still, there’s reason to be hopeful. By Abdallah Fayyad Globe Staff,Updated January 20, 2021, 3:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Union troops of Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery assembled at Fort Stevens in 1865, one year after Confederate soldiers attacked Washington, D.C.Library of Congress WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump incited a mob attack on the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, an insurrection in which five people died, one of the former p...

Ms. Hornaday’s thesis is that normal people (specifically white male Christians) are bad. Her case in point: the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King: In fact, the White, male, Christian version of normal was precisely what J. Edgar Hoover was going for when he recruited for the FBI, the investigative agency he ran with an iron fist for nearly 50 years.… Hornaday [Tweet her] says of the 1965–1974 FBI TV Series  I certainly don’t remember any episode where they wiretapped and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. to gather salacious material that would disrupt his movement, destroy hi...