Bernie Sanders | The Fight for Voting Rights Is Our Fight Today
Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act's 'pre-clearance' provision, which extended protections to minority voters in states where they were clearly needed. Then we must expand the Act's scope so that every American, regardless of skin color or national origin, is able to vote freely."
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Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act's 'pre-clearance' provision, which extended protections to minority voters in states where they were clearly needed. Then we must expand the Act's scope so that every American, regardless of skin color or national origin, is able to vote freely."
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Appellate Panel Says Texas ID Law Broke US Voting Rights Act
Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
Eckholm writes: "A federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday that a strict voter identification law in Texas discriminated against blacks and Hispanics and violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
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Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
Eckholm writes: "A federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday that a strict voter identification law in Texas discriminated against blacks and Hispanics and violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
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Chicago Police Detained Thousands of Black Americans at Homan Square Interrogation Facility
Spencer Ackerman and Zach Stafford, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal."
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Spencer Ackerman and Zach Stafford, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal."
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Americans Say Racism Is a Bigger Problem Today Than at Any Point in the Past 20 Years
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
Ingraham writes: "Half of Americans - exactly 50 percent - say racism is a 'big problem' in this country, according to a fascinating new Pew poll released today. That's up an astonishing 17 points since the last time pollsters asked this question in 2010."
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Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
Ingraham writes: "Half of Americans - exactly 50 percent - say racism is a 'big problem' in this country, according to a fascinating new Pew poll released today. That's up an astonishing 17 points since the last time pollsters asked this question in 2010."
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Report: US Jails Face Suicide Epidemic
Jenifer Fenton, Al Jazeera America
Fenton writes: "Suicides in local jails are the leading cause of death for U.S. inmates, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)."
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Jenifer Fenton, Al Jazeera America
Fenton writes: "Suicides in local jails are the leading cause of death for U.S. inmates, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)."
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Will the US Begin to Investigate Civilian Casualties in Its Air Strikes on ISIS?
Chris Woods, The Independent
Woods writes: "The first year of the international Coalition's air war against Isis has already seen more than 17,000 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq and Syria, as part of 5,700 air strikes."
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Chris Woods, The Independent
Woods writes: "The first year of the international Coalition's air war against Isis has already seen more than 17,000 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq and Syria, as part of 5,700 air strikes."
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Planned Pipeline Through a National Forest Stirs Fears
Steve Szkotak, Associated Press
Szkotak writes: "The U.S. Forest Service has raised hundreds of concerns about a proposed natural gas pipeline that would carve a 30-mile swath through national forests in Virginia and West Virginia."
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Steve Szkotak, Associated Press
Szkotak writes: "The U.S. Forest Service has raised hundreds of concerns about a proposed natural gas pipeline that would carve a 30-mile swath through national forests in Virginia and West Virginia."
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