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THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C. (Virtual) MODERATOR: Okay, let’s get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Foreign Press Center briefing, “From Civil Rights to Racial Justice: Understanding African…

No one woke up Memorial Day morning 2020 thinking their world was going to change.No one imagined that one of the most momentous periods in the long quest for racial justice in America was about to begin.And certainly numerous teenagers and…

"Republicans could be incentivized to minimize the voting power of color voters by putting those voters in relatively few districts," said Greenbaum, chief attorney on the legal committee. "Who wins is closely related to a district's…

Odds were always good against Robert Collier, former Black's former hospital assistant, who had petitioned the US Supreme Court to determine whether his exposure to the most racially offensive word in American slang was dehumanizing enough…

President Joe Biden plans to appoint Catherine Lhamon as assistant secretary of civil rights in the US Department of Education, a role she previously held in the Obama administration.The upcoming appointment of Lhamon, currently a White…

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an Executive Order directing the whole of the federal government to advance equity and racial justice. Today, the President announced a historic new set of investments to…

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With more Democrats advocating reform or elimination of the Senate filibuster, Republicans are pushing back hard. Senate minority chairman Mitch McConnell last week threatened to do scorched earth against Democrats if they…

Seven civil rights and racial justice organizations said Monday the New Hampshire judicial system must, like the police, begin prosecuting cases based on race, citing the "significant inequality" of criminal…

Called Obama "Head Negro" Katrina Pierson, the controversial former national spokesman for the Trump 2016 campaign, is planning a run for Congress. Pierson, who has made racist remarks in the past and complains, among other things, of the…