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Black lawmakers in California set goals: Study reparations, revive affirmative action

June 9, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

Also among the measures introduced is a proposal to restore voting rights to those serving parole.

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again

June 9, 2020 By Joe Sims

Racist police violence, global pandemic, and a COVID-sparked economic crisis—November 2020 will be an election like no other.

Teen students lead Nashville’s largest ever protest against racist police violence

June 8, 2020 By Albert Bender

Organized by five teens: Nya Collins, Jade Fuller, Kennedy Green, Zee Thomas, and Emma Rose Smith. All 14 to 16, four African American and one white, and all female.

Protesting in Phoenix for Dion Johnson, another Black man killed by police

June 8, 2020 By Mathew Tanner

Officials ignore the cause of local anger: the killing of a Black man asleep in his car by a police officer on the same night George Floyd was killed.

Congressional Dems unveil big police reform package

June 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The lawmakers flew into D.C., despite the coronavirus pandemic, to showcase the Justice In Policing Act. And they challenged their congressional GOP colleagues to act, too – a challenge most Republicans have so far rejected.