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Republicans Are Using the Democratic Process to Curtail Democracy

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Voting Requirements, Jim Crow, Voter Fraud, Voter Disenfranchisement, Voting Legislation, Brennan Center for Justice, Voting Rights, Voter Qualifications, Poll Tax, Voter ID, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

The fraud that actually exists is not in voter identification but rather in the alleged justification for legislation that requires it. There is no epidemic of voters misrepresenting their identity at the polls.

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Kansas Gov Apologizes For Segregation

Reuters | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Gov. Sam Brownback, Jim Crow, Kansas, Bv-Politics, Segregation, Segregation Apolology, Sam Brownback, Reuters, Kansas Apology, Sam Brownback Kansas, Kansas Segregation, Brownback Apology, Black Voices News

By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kan., May 17 (Reuters) - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized on Thursday to blacks for segregation i...

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Voter ID Laws: Silencing the American People

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Brennan Center, Jim Crow, Voter ID Laws, American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, Voter Fraud, Voter Suppression, Voter ID, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Voter ID laws are the icing on the cake when it comes to public officials shutting Americans out of the decision-making process, silencing dissent, and making sure that those in power stay in power.

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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DOMA Legislation Is Not Jim Crow

Rebecca Wanzo | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Religion, Jim Crow, North Carolina Amendment One, Doma, Power & Politics, Bv-Politics, Gay Marriage, Black Voices News
Rebecca Wanzo

DOMA is not Jim Crow, but DOMA legislation is one of the principle moral and ethical issues of our time, and this is why it is important to name the specificity of this kind of harm.

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An American Tragedy: The War on Drugs

Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Michelle Alexander, Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Slavery by Another Name, Blackmon, Politics News
Dr. Lawrence M. Schall

Because mass incarceration has become so normalized in our country, the withholding of the most basic of human and democratic rights -- the right to vote -- has also become the norm.

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I Ain't No Broken Window

Paul Boden | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Western Regional Advocacy Project, Human Rights, Homelessness, Business, Broken Windows Theory, Civil Rights, James Q Wilson, Ugly Laws, Social Justice, Anti-Okie Laws, Private Security, Civility, Sundown Towns, Jim Crow, Organizing, Privatization, Quality of Life, Business Improvement Districts, Politics News
Paul Boden

These are the civilized people; they are consumers. They are us. The people these laws are enforced against are not us. They are them.

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The Curious Case Of Trayvon Martin: Justice Miscarried And Other Crimes Of Consciousness

Bishop T.D. Jakes | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Stand Your Ground, George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Fourteenth Amendment, Trayvon Martin, Religion News
Bishop T.D. Jakes

"He killed my son." Words no father should ever utter, and yet that these words hang in the atmosphere over Sanford, Fla., like humidity on a dank summer's eve; like an echo unanswered, demanding recompense.

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Institutionalized Racism and the War on Drugs

Joshua Shulman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Racism, Discrimination, Felony, War on Drugs, Obama War on Drugs, Institutionalized Racism and War on Drugs, Institutionalized Racism, The New Jim Crow, Racial Discrimination, Politics News
Joshua Shulman

Is our Criminal Justice system really just a way to keep large numbers of African-Americans out of mainstream society, like we did under Jim Crow?

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Why Mass Incarceration Really Is The New Jim Crow

Inimai Chettiar | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Prisons, Prison System, Bv-Politics, Racial Profiling, Black History Month, Black Voices News
Inimai Chettiar

I spent this past New Year's Eve lying on the floor of a New England police station. Just hours before, I was enjoying sushi with my best friend Jamal; excitedly discussing his possible political appointment and promising career.

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Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Migration

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Flotus, Michelle Obama, Heritage, Underground Railroad, Civil Rights, History, Jim Crow, Chicago Defender, Ancestors, Chicago, Ancestry, Roots, Genealogy, African Americans, Great Migration, Celebrity News
Megan Smolenyak

This is the second in a series about the ancestry of the First Lady. The introduction can be found here: Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Chicago Beginni...

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Danielle Cadet

PHOTOS: University Vandals Raise Specter Of Jim Crow With Racist Signs

HuffingtonPost.com | Danielle Cadet | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, New Paltz, Colored Only Signs, SUNY New Paltz Colored Only Sign, Karanja Keita Carroll, Ayanna Thomas, Williams College, Suny, Suny-New-Paltz, Video, Black Voices News

Students and faculty at the State University of New York at New Paltz are planning to hold several forums after a number of racially insensitive signs...

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Reality Check: Republican Losers Did Not Overreach

Karl Frisch | Posted 01.09.2012

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Karl Frisch

Conventional wisdom pushers and the Beltway chattering class have been scrambling to explain the crushing defeat Republicans suffered in last night's off-year election. To hear them spin it, Republicans lost because they "overreached." Ridiculous.

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Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Koch, Tea Party, Chapel Hill, Richard Burr, Koch Brothers, Unc, Orange County Democratic Women, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, John Lewis, Hamilton, Molly Ivins, Harry Truman, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Mecklenburg County NC, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nino Scalia, Paul Wellstone, 2012, Republican, Battle of the South, Jefferson, Cesar Chavez, Bank of America, Gay Rights, Joan Dresser, Charlotte-North Carolina, Charlotte, Barbara Jordan, North Carolina, Palin-Bachmann, Abortion Rights, Citizens United, John Roberts, Wake County, Ellie Kinnaird, Tom Tillis, Donna Brazile, Jim Crow, Wall Street, Alice Bordsen, Charles Koch, North Carolina Democratic Women, Wake County School Board, Jimmy Carter, Gene Nichol, Renee Price, Lillian's List, David Price, Art Pope, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

Recognizing that women's rights will take a devastating hit if Republicans return to power in 2012, Democratic women are rising to face the challenge.

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Alabama's HB56 Shows Racism Still Part of State Culture

Keith Rushing | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Racism, Immigration Reform, Alabama, Immigration, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Alabama Immigrant Law, hb56, Alabama Immigration Law, Politics News
Keith Rushing

Racism in the United States often increases during tough economic times and is reflected in scapegoating. That's what seems to have happened in Alabama.

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Friday Talking Points -- Labor Daze

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011

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Chris Weigant

It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.

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From Disabled Veteran To CEO (WATCH)

Thom Ruhe | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Small Business, Small Business Veterans, Military, Small Business Advice, Veteran Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Advice, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation, Veterans, Small Business News
Thom Ruhe

Life's greatest rewards start by making a choice to actively participate in our own lives instead of simply observing them. So what's holding you back?

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Daughters of The Help

Mark Anthony Neal | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, The Help, Hollywood, Julie Dash, Domestics, Daughters of the Dust, Daughters, The Help Criticism, The Help Movie, The Help Race Issues, Black Voices News
Mark Anthony Neal

One of the biggest failings of The Help is that a teenage black daughter could watch the film and come away not fully understanding the sacrifices made by the black daughters that came before her.

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Why Are Some Black Women So Outraged by The Help

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, Viola Davis, Black Woman Redefined, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Black Women, The Help Book, The Help Movie, Black Media, Black Voices News
Sophia A. Nelson

Why are some of the best and brightest black female voices in America so outraged over the new movie The Help based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel?

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Where Are They Now?: The Freedom Riders

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi, American History, Segregation, Freedom Rides, Black History, Congress-of-Racial-Equality, Freedom Riders, Black Voices News

Hank Thomas walked up the steps of the Greyhound bus on a sunny May 4, 1961. As he surveyed its drab, blue-gray interior, the lanky 19-year-old Africa...

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How the GOP Is Fast Becoming the Poll Taxing Party of Jim Crow

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: David Koch, Wisconsin, Elections 2012, Wisconsin Unions, Governor Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, Voter ID, Jim Crow, Rick Scott, Voter Intimidation, Koch Brothers, Voter Supression, 2012 Election, Scott Walker, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Abraham Lincoln, Koch Industries, Voter ID Laws, Poll Tax, Republican Party, Wisconsin Protests, Republicans, Politics News
Karl Frisch

No one would be foolish enough to argue that the 2012 elections will be a cakewalk for either side. It will be tough, it will be dirty, it will be expensive, and it will be close. So, what is the GOP doing to tilt this relatively level playing field to its advantage?

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Both Sides Now: Debt Ceiling Fight "Psychotic"? ID Laws "Jim Crow"?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Michele Bachmann, Christian Extremism, Debt Ceiling, Rick Santorum, Voter ID Laws, Mary Matalin, Anders Behring Breivik, Tea Party, Bill O'Reilly, Arianna Huffington, Politics News
HuffPost Radio

2010-06-28-bothsides_pull.jpg Arianna & Mary debate whether voter ID laws declare war on fraud or voters, and is the debt ceiling a manufactured crisis? Can O'Reilly complain about "Christian Extremism" after fretting "Muslim Extremism"?

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Paige Lavender

WATCH: Bill Clinton Goes After Voter ID Bills

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, Video, 2012 Election, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Elections 2012, Voter ID Laws, Jim Crow Laws, Bill Clinton Voter Id, Voter ID, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton went after Republican governors and legislators on Wednesday for their "disciplined, passionate, determine...

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NYPD's Horrible Stop-and-Frisk Policy Harkens Back to Jim Crow Era

Keith Rushing | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Racism, New York Police Department, African Americans, Racial Profiling, Jim Crow, Stop and Frisk, Nypd, Racial Discrimination, New York News
Keith Rushing

It's a shame that the New York Police Department continues its unconstitutional targeting of Black and Latino New Yorkers despite years of demands that this dehumanization end.

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The True Election Fraud

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Rick Scott, Voter Disenfranchisement, Early Voting, Election Day Registration, Scott Walker, Voter ID Laws, Anthony Weiner Scandal, Voter Suppression, Rick Perry, Maine, Politics News
Rev. Al Sharpton

In an attempt to stifle our advancement and revert change, many conservative leaders are enacting new laws that make it just as difficult for the already disenfranchised to vote today as it was decades ago.

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