A new report by the group, LatinasRepresent shines a light on the underrepresentation of Latinas in elected offices. The data show that Latinas represent just 1 percent of elected officials nationwide…
2014 – “No Latina has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate”
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“Marlon Brando’s eulogy at the funeral of 17-year-old Black Panther member Bobby Hutton in San Francisco in 1968.
Brando’s participation in the Black American civil rights movement actually began well before King’s death. In the early 1960s, he contributed thousands of dollars to both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) and to a scholarship fund established for the children of slain Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. leader Medgar Evers.”
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There were many more killings than those of activists. A Louisiana black businessman’s murder is the latest case reporters have reopened.
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Security cameras show police cutting off a woman’s weave at a Michigan jail. WXYZ’s Heather Catallo has the story.
This police officer seems to think she has a right to do as she pleases with this person’s hair.
Our hair is part of our body and we have every right to not allow another person to touch or molest our body.
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“Violence lies like molten lava beneath the surface of our society, just waiting to erupt. We can choose to be bystanders, cover our eyes and ears, or become pro-active to meet the challenge that Dr…”
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“An attorney for the family of a killer whose Ohio execution by lethal injection was marked by several minutes of unprecedented gasping and unusual sounds plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer John Paul Rion says Dennis McGuire’s family is deeply disturbed by his execution and believes it violated his constitutional rights. Rion is a member of a state Supreme Court panel examining possible changes to Ohio’s death penalty law. He said Thursday all citizens have a right to expect they won’t be punished in a cruel and unusual fashion…”.* Ben Mankiewicz (co-host, What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) breaks it down on The Young Turks.
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Transgender actress and “Orange Is The New Black” breakout star Laverne Cox is currently co-producing an important and compelling new documentary about the life and incarceration of CeCe McDonald.
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Historians of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s naturally tend to focus on the movement’s activism and the variety of forms it took. White segregationists receive much…
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LZ Granderson says if a black man said he shot an unarmed white teenage girl in “self defense” he would be in jail. Black victims don’t get the same justice
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Death penalty states are scrambling to find drugs for executions. A civil suit claims Texas falsified prescriptions to acquire drugs for lethal injections.
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