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'Long overdue': Oregon voters can prohibit slavery, involuntary servitude in state constitution
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter near unanimous support in the Legislature sent Senate Joint Resolution 10 to the ballot,...
Travis Nelson, an Oregon lawmaker who is Black, stopped by state police twice in a week
Statesman Journal· 1 year agoThe Oregon Legislature has been in session for just under a month. Since then, one Black lawmaker...
Here are the Black candidates who made history on election night
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoThis year’s midterm elections saw a record number of Black candidates from major parties running for...
Ohio Constitution allows slavery as a penalty for crime. Lawmakers want to change that
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNearly sixty years after the last state in the nation abolished slavery, Ohio's Constitution still...
Will the Supreme Court Uphold the 14th Amendment and Block an Oregon Law Criminalizing Homelessness?
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNearly 38 million Americans live in poverty. In some areas and among some populations, entrenched...
California lawmakers revive effort to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn inmate from the Puerta La Cruz conservation camp in Warner Springs puts out burning downed trees...
Will parts of Oregon really secede to join Idaho?
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis November, two conservative counties in Oregon will vote on ballot measures that could someday change the map of the western US. The initiatives...
For Five U.S. States, Slavery Is Back On The Ballot
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt’s unsettling that slavery is on any ballot in nearly 2023. But for voters in five U.S. states, it will be. The Huffington Post reported, “voters in...
Special session: Florida lawmakers heeding Gov. DeSantis' demand for new congressional map, enraging...
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTALLAHASSEE — When 80-year-old Sam Palmer was growing up in Gadsden County, few Black Floridians...
Resilience, opportunity and struggle: Preserving and sharing the history of Letitia Carson
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOregon State University, Oregon Black Land Trust, Oregon Black Pioneers and the Linn-Benton NAACP chapter have begun preserving and sharing the history of Letitia Carson, the only Black woman ...