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Let’s call it what is is – “Retroactive Abortion”! For example, if a million black men are incarcerated, two things happen. First, they offender usually lose their right to vote. Secondly, if you take a million incarcerated black men and each of them could have on average three children, this would eliminate, based on this count, three million black people from existence, which means removing three million voters at some point.
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Her name is Alysa Bobbitt. She was 5-years old and lived in Shady Cove, Oregon. On June 27, 2013, Alysa and her mom were visiting Karen Hancock in a Grants Pass apartment. In the apartment …
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the US based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin. It also outlawed segregation, keeping races separate, at schools, public places and most businesses. It, and the Voting Rights Act a year later, overthrew Jim Crow.
School busing and affirmative action grew out of it as policies designed to meet its demands
It was one of the main civil rights reforms of the 1960s:
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The videotaped beating of a homeless African-American woman by a light-skinned California Highway Patrol officer is reopening the L.A. race-relations dialogue initiated by the Rodney King beating 23 years ago.
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A 17-year-old Honduran girl migrates to U.S. alone, facing threats from deadly gangs. CNN’s Alina Machado reports.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico…
The easiest way to have good records of who is entering and exiting the United States is to have easy ways of legal immigration. – Chris Wilson, Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center @Chris_E_Wilson
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Shootings claim 9 lives, wound more than 60 others over the holiday weekend.
Chicago’s police superintendent lashes out at what he called lax state and federal gun laws after a violent Fourth of July weekend.
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A police officer has been disciplined after pushing over a wheelchair-bound man. CNN affiliate WRTV reports.
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Sally Kohn says the intensity of the anti-immigrant rhetoric is stunning. It’s time to stop using ‘illegal’ as an epithet
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No human is illegal. Drop the i-word.