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Kamala Harris Is on the Rise | Glamour
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…”
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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress | Al Jazeera
The Palestinian-American and Somali-American make history as the first two women headed to US Congress.
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Barry Jenkins Brings James Baldwin Home to Harlem | The Atlantic
The U.S. premiere of the film adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk, held at the historic Apollo Theater, captured all the generous, urgent love the writer’s work conveyed.
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Florida votes to restore ex-felon voting rights with Amendment 4 | Vox
The victory means more than 1 million people will regain the right to vote.
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An emerald as big as your hand is found in Zambia — a whopping 5,655 carats | The Philadelphia Tribune
The emerald is being called “Inkalamu,” which means “lion” in the local Zambia Bemba language.
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‘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.
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56,800 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.
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Stacey 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.
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