Only this time, the outrage at a powerful, predatory man is swifter and more universal.
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Condoleezza Rice Calls On Donald Trump To Drop Out Of The Race
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broke her silence on the presidential election on Saturday and called on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to end his campaign.
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Is Anything That Trump Says About African American Communities True?
Donald Trump makes it sound like black Americans lead terrible lives—filled with race riots, rampant shootings, and rapid rising unemployment. He seems to think that African American communities are all equally engulfed in poverty.
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Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
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‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes
Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.
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Mark Burns, Trump’s Favorite Black Pastor: Hillary Wants ‘Genocide’ for Blacks
Meet Mark Burns, Trump’s most prominent surrogate to black voters, who’s tweeted a cartoon of Clinton in blackface and says she would kill Christianity.
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Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
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A C-SPAN caller asked a black guest how to stop being prejudiced. Here’s how she responded.
While a guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Aug. 18, a caller told public-policy organizer Heather McGhee he was a prejudiced white man, but he wanted to know what he could do about it. This is what she said. (C-SPAN)
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Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation
Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.
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“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond
Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia
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