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Race
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Attica Scott is seeking justice for Breonna Taylor. A law named for her would be a start.
Time is running out this year in Kentucky for Breonna’s Law, a police accountability bill, and one state lawmaker is not giving up.
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House restarts conversation about reparations for Black Americans
The discussion of payments from the federal government comes as the administration focuses on racial equity.
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Judge dismisses charge against woman who called police on a Black man in Central Park
Amy Cooper, a White woman, made headlines in May after a viral video captured her telling police that a birdwatcher was “threatening my life.”
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Courts asked to analyze ‘undue burden’ of Florida’s felony disenfranchisement law on Black women
New filings in the nation’s sole 19th Amendment felony disenfranchisement suit seek acknowledgement of historical and economic factors that impact Black women in particular.
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Biden’s executive actions tackle racial equity, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and more
The 19th reports on some of Biden’s early actions that have implications for women, people of color and LGBTQ+ Americans.
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Republican state lawmakers want to punish schools that teach the 1619 Project
Lawmakers in at least five states have introduced legislation that threatens to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about the award-winning project.
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Black women are leading the Congressional Black Caucus’s organizations and efforts
As the CBC marks 50 years, Black women are heading up efforts to shape priorities amid a reckoning on racial equality.
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‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who raised Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin
Anna Malaika Tubbs’ debut biography celebrates Black motherhood and fights the erasure of Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin.
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‘If the system is still the same, do we really have justice?’: Bernice King on poverty, race and accountability
The CEO of the King Center speaks to The 19th before launching a new initiative aimed at addressing hate and inequality.
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About two-thirds of Black women and Latinas don’t know where to get a COVID vaccine
The number reflects a stark racial disparity on vaccine information and underscores the challenges in vaccinating the people most affected by COVID-19.