The Senator came to Washington to do work—and gave some women nationwide a voice inside the room where it happens.
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Four Black Workers Met with Nooses, Swastikas, N-Words File Racial Discrimination Against San Francisco Construction Company | Atlanta Black Star
“All I want to do is go to work, do right by my family, and come home safe every day…”
View More‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR
In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white.
View More56,800 migrant dead and missing: ‘They are human beings’ | Associated Press
An Associated Press tally has documented at least 56,800 migrants dead or missing worldwide since 2014 — almost double the number found in the world’s only official attempt to try to count them, by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.
View MoreStacey Abrams’s Prescription for a Maternal-Health Crisis | The Atlantic
Georgia is one of the riskiest places in the country for black women to have a child. That fact could make the difference in the governor’s race.
View More8 African heroes who led massive slave rebellions in the Caribbean but are less celebrated | Face2Face Africa
A little over the past decade, the stories of powerful kings and queens who worked hard at building powerful kingdoms and sustaining them for centuries have been unearthed to redefine the history of Africa as opposed to what has been fed to the masses by the West for several decades.
View MoreN.C. Man Charged with Ethnic Intimidation after Brandishing Weapon at Black Poll Worker | Atlanta Black Star
Police have arrested a man accused of harassing and threatening to assault a Black campaign worker at an early-voting location in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday.
View MoreAretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, is dead at 76 | Vox
Celebrating the joyful legacy of a musical icon.
View MoreGroundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls | The New York Times
Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota state lawmaker, is poised to be one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, winning the Democratic nomination in a left-leaning district.
View MoreHow a black, firefighting union president plans to take on Scott Walker | Vox
Mahlon Mitchell tells Vox that “Wisconsin is ready for a black governor.”
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