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America Needs More Accountability for Disregarding Black Lives—Congressional Republicans Are Pushing for Less

A massive corporate lobbying effort is running in parallel and contrary to the Black-led push for accountability throughout American society.
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August 6, 2020
Amy Traub
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This Constitution Day, How We Can Undo the White Supremacist Roots of Our Nation’s Founding

Our Constitution was designed to protect the institution of slavery and has led to the centuries-long assault on Black people and the ongoing struggle to secure the right to vote. This is why we put forth a proposal to finally, fully guarantee the right to vote.
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Laura Williamson
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Amidst Multiple Storms of Injustice and the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Fight for Climate Justice Continues  

Gulf Coast communities face the same environmental and racial injustices they faced during Hurricane Katrina—except now with the overlapping crises of COVID-19, economic collapse, and uprisings for Black Lives. Policy change must undo this injustice.
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Lesley Williams
Adrien Salazar
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Voter Registration Through Human Service Agencies During COVID-19

We encourage states to update their procedures if they have not been providing voter registration opportunities as part of ex parte Medicaid renewals and SNAP benefit extensions.
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Brenda Wright
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Fifty Years After Earth Day, Coronavirus, Climate Injustice, and Inequality Collide

The COVID-19 pandemic is an environmental justice crisis—it has exposed inequalities that have persisted in places across the country with decades of pollution.
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Adrien Salazar

Racial Justice Groups Take Legal Action Against FL Governor Ron DeSantis Demanding Changes to Upcoming Elections Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

“The collective trauma of this pandemic is exposing the sheer depth of inequality in this country and the consequences that has always presented for Black and brown communities. We hope that Florida election officials will stand on the right side of history..."
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Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Dēmos Represent Parties Seeking to Prevent Voter Purges in Election Year

“In litigating these voter purge cases across the country, we have seen Judicial Watch and similar groups use bad data, routinely rejected by courts, to try to undermine political participation.”
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Civil rights groups renew push to expand Florida voting access amid COVID-19 pandemic

A group of voting rights organizations is suing Florida again over its elections protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, citing that not enough was done during the March 17 primary to allow registered voters to safely cast a ballot.
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Bianca Padro Ocasio
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Racial Justice and Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus: A Conversation with Sabeel Rahman

There have been devastating reports of disproportionate rates of death in Black communities as a result of COVID-19. Racial capitalism and structural racism are to blame.
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K. Sabeel Rahman
Dr. Peniel Joseph

Roundup: We’ve Been Socially Distanced for Years. It’s Called Racism.

Our latest on the COVID-19 crisis — from a wake-up call about our years of cultural apartheid to what the pandemic means for the racial wealth gap, and more.
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Protect Black and Brown Workers on the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Fight

A unique set of injustices confront workers still heading off to a job every day in the midst of a pandemic.
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Amy Traub
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Ohio's Primary Is a Mess: How the State Is Restricting the Vote during the COVID Crisis (And What We're Doing About It)

The Ohio legislature created a wholly avoidable, overly complicated situation that makes Ohioans jump through hoops to vote. Ohio voters: we want to hear about your experience.
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Naila Awan
Emerson Gordon-Marvin

We’ve Been Socially Distanced for Decades. It’s Called Racism.

Our society has actually been built upon and defined by social distancing for many years. It’s called systemic and institutional racism.
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Rodney McKenzie, Jr.
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Don’t Let the Coronavirus Crisis Drive Black and Brown Families Further into Debt

COVID-19 is a threat to everyone, but the economic damage resulting from medically necessary quarantines and shelter-in-place orders is neither random nor equally distributed.
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Amy Traub