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At least 10M new Black voters likely headed to polls Nov. 8
By Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — If pollsters believe African-Americans are too overwhelmed, distracted or disinterested to vote in the mid-term and
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Marijuana pardons passed last year should soon be reflected on criminal records, officials say
By Nick Chrastil The Lens After over a year of frustrations and finger-pointing, pardons for around ten thousand people who were convicted of simple possession
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By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer On September 28, two of the nation’s largest and most influential business groups filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its Director ... Cutting through confusion of voter registration
(Ethnic Media Services) – In the United States, one-third of eligible voters are not registered to vote. The reasons behind the millions of unregistered voters are manifold but one of ... Black, minority farmers file class action suit against federal government
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Black and other minority farmers sued the federal government last week, alleging that recent legislation has eliminated a federal debt-relief program aimed at assisting financially beleaguered ... New report details how much more likely Black people are to be wrongly convicted than whites
By Kelan Lyons Contributing Writer (Special from NC Policy Watch via lailluminator.com) — Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were sentenced to death in 1984 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina ... Community College System fails to produce equitable outcomes for Black students
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — More than one in three Black community college students are in poverty, and widespread inequality in community colleges deepened throughout the pandemic for ... Bank branch closures in Black America: Key Capitol Hill committees question reasons, effects
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer In recent weeks, key Capitol Hill committees held hearings with CEOs of some of the nation’s largest commercial banks. At issue for both California Congress-woman Maxine Waters, ... The reparations debate continues as advocates push for broader societal acceptance
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — For the more than 400 years that Americans of African descent have been in America, Whites generally have never come to terms with enslaving ... Barbados will be among the first to receive climate money from new International Monetary Fund Resilience Trust
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Barbados, the Caribbean nation whose prime minister, Mia Mottley, has championed the argument that small and developing countries desperately need debt relief and funding if they are to ...
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