Tiff Massey’s hyper-territorialism regarding who can claim Detroit as their home comes into philosophical conflict with some of the culture blending she utilizes in a new body of fiber-based work.
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Racial, Prison Gerrymandering Lawsuits to Make for a Busy Year of Legal Battles As Redistricting Nears | Atlanta Black Star
As the 2019 state legislative sessions get underway, a busy year of legal battles also is beginning over lingering allegations that hundreds of electoral districts across the country were illegally drawn to the disadvantage of particular voters or political parties.
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Kamala Harris’s Campaign Strategy: Don’t Pick a Lane | The Atlantic
The 2020 candidate is pitching herself as the one who can actually put together a winning coalition of voters, a goal Democrats have obsessed over since their shocker loss in 2016.
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‘We Call Ourselves the Badasses’: Meet the New Women of Congress | Politico
The history-making class of new women on Capitol Hill is here, and its members have a lot to say.
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Meet The Black Woman who Created The World’s Largest Tech Conference | Shoppe Black
Ngozi Odita is the founder of Social Media Week Lagos. She is a producer and a public speaker that works with artists and arts organizations to produce public programming that includes art exhibitions, film screenings, concerts & artist talks.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ | The Atlantic
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
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Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays | NBC News
Marie Jean Pierre, who worked as a dishwasher at the Conrad Miami, sued Virginia-based Park Hotels & Resorts, formerly known as Hilton Worldwide, in 2017 for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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How Racial Gerrymandering Deprives Black People of Political Power – KOLUMN Magazine
Thirty years ago, the Supreme Court expanded the meaning of one of the most important civil rights laws in U.S. history — the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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