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Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights
Knoxville News Sentinel· 7 hours agoWilliam Lyons is Interim Associate Director of The Institute of American Civics at the Howard Baker...
Trump’s case casts a spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies
WFLA via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoSeveral of the defendants said they were confused by the arrests because election officials had...
Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama who lived in the White House as ‘First Granny’ – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 hours agothe mother of Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States. Marian Robinson’s own...
Louisiana Legislature approves bill to allow castration of child sex offenders
The Daily Advertiser via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoUnder SB 371, judges could assess the penalty against people convicted of aggravated rape,...
Thurgood Marshall Was My Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the Court Today.
Politico· 2 days agoWhat was he, the first Black jurist on the court, supposed to say to poor Black kids about their...
A physicist dismantles Terrence Howard's nonsensical "theory of everything"
Boing Boing· 1 day agoTerrence Howard recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast. Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical...
Voting rights for U.S. citizens with a felony conviction vary from state to state
WAFB Baton Rouge· 6 days agoAccording to the Sentencing Project, one out of 50 people of voting age was disenfranchised due to a...
Trump is not the problem - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 21 minutes agoThis is overwhelmingly true if those people are Republicans, a group that has largely abandoned the rule of law only when it applies to Trump. When 147 Republicans in < ...
It’s time for sorting out the sounds of birds and lawn mowers
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoA graduate of Brighton High School and Syracuse University, he was also the president of Rochester...
The hollow malevolence of Jefferson Davis
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 1 day agoEven Jim Crow Alabama couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for Jefferson Davis. When an Alabama House representative filed a bill in 1900 to make his birthday...
