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Three voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger improperly removed approximately 200,000 voters from the voter rolls in 2019. The Transformative Justice […]
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Alarm bells have been sounded in Georgia’s presidential primary and down-ballot elections as state and local officials reacted to the chaos as voters faced long lines and confusion as they attempted to cast their votes in-person.
Georgia’s secretary of state and the governor could have deployed resources to provide a smoother and more seamless voting experience for its citizens during Tuesday’s Election Day.
“Georgia’s election was a complete catastrophe,”said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law successfully issued pre-litigation demand letters to officials in Fulton, Cobb and DeKalb Counties, Georgia urging that officials voluntarily take action to extend poll hours.
More importantly, Georgia must fix these problems before November’s national and state elections.
If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November.
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U.S. District Court Rejects DeKalb County voter purge efforts to Stop Federal Voting Rights Lawsuit, Won’t Order Dismissal Court Recognizes Claim Brought by the Georgia NAACP and the Georgia Coalition … Continued
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Mali's President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse have been arrested by mutinying soldiers, according to reports. This came hours after soldiers took up arms and staged a mutiny at a key base in Kati, a town close to the capital, Bamako Tuesday morning. 'We can tell you that the president and the...
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Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform.
“It is clear that Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, are no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy.
The groups say that Facebook amplifies White supremacists, allows posts that incite violence and contain political propaganda and misinformation, and doesn’t stop “bad actors using the platform to do harm.”
They want to apply public pressure on Facebook to “stop generating ad revenue from hateful content, provide more support to people who are targets of racism and hate, and to increase safety for private groups on the platform.”
Facebook’s employees recently publicly criticized Zuckerberg for deciding to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that suggested police-brutality protesters in Minneapolis could be shot.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company will conduct a review of the policy he cited when allowing President Donald Trump’s violence-inciting post to remain up on the site.
“We’re going to review our policies allowing discussion and threats of state use of force to see if there are any amendments we should adopt,” Zuckerberg wrote in a lengthy statement days after his employees staged a virtual walkout in protest of his response to Trump’s post.
Facing calls to take the post down or put a warning on it, as Twitter did, Zuckerberg initially responded to upset civil rights leaders and his own employees by saying the post did not violate any of Facebook’s policies.
Zuckerberg also revealed that Facebook will review its policies on monitoring posts that could create confusion about voting or suppress voter turnout.
While Zuckerberg said he likes that Facebook’s policy is to fully remove any posts that violate the guidelines, he’s open to hearing new ideas.
President Donald Trump will participate in a roundtable discussion Thursday with faith leaders, law enforcement officials and small-business owners to discuss race relations and policing during a trip to Dallas, where he’ll later host a high-dollar fundraising dinner.
A senior White House official told The Texas Tribune on Wednesday afternoon that ahead of the dinner, Trump will host the roundtable at a church in Dallas, where he’ll announce his administration’s plans “for holistic revitalization and recovery.”
Trump will also hear from national and local leaders about ways “the private and public sector can work together to uplift our most vulnerable communities.”
Without disclosing names, the senior official said pastors and local law enforcement representatives from Dallas will be in attendance.
The visit comes as recent statewide polls show a tight race between Trump and Joe Biden, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, in November.
Today (Sept. 17), Foot Locker, Inc. announced that it is partnering with Rock The Vote. If you can work a sneaker app, you can certainly figure out if you're registered to vote, right?
By Tali Arbel Associated Press Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform. The groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign launch, include Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping []
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the case.
This sentiment is shared amongst many young Black voters who are weary of the Democratic Party’s unfulfilled promises as a whole.
Still, other young Black voters aren’t impressed with the pool of choices, and the disdain for Biden is so much that they would risk another four years of Trump.
“I hate to say it, but between Biden and Trump, I’d still vote Trump,” says one young Black woman.
There seems to be no guarantee that the Democratic party will achieve its intended end if Biden chooses a Black woman to run alongside him.
On Saturday (June 6) Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who is up for re-election next year, was booed out of a rally after he declined to make a commitment to defund the city’s police department, according to The New York Times.
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WCCO-Channel 4, spoke with Frey after he left the rally, asking for a further explanation.
Cities and states across the nation have called to action the defunding, downsizing or abolishing of police departments following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, who died after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, dug his knee into Mr. Floyd’s neck nearly nine minutes.
At least four members of the Minneapolis City Council requested the restructuring of the Minneapolis Police Department.
It’s not clear if police budget cuts in Los Angeles or New York City equates to abolishing the police.
Three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, were fired after a supervisor found recorded conversations including one officer saying he “can’t wait” to start “slaughtering” African Americans.
According to the New York Times, Wilmington Police Department Chief Donny Williams said in a news conference Wednesday that James Gilmore, Jesse Moore II, and Michael Piner were fired for misconduct after an internal investigation.
The investigation into the officers began when a supervisor’s routine inspection found the conversations, which were recorded by a patrol car camera used to monitor people in custody.
In one exchange between officers Piner and Gilmore, they criticized the protests and the department’s response.
In another conversation, Moore called Piner and during the exchange called a black woman he had arrested the day before a racial slur adding she “needed a bullet in her head right then and move on.”
That issue was and is police brutality.
And while I know that Whites, both male and female, are all too often victimized by unprofessional or brutal police acts, the most egregious instances of police misconduct are those faced by Black Americans and, specifically, African American men.
The paradigm and historical analogy that is closest to this problem of police use of illegal or excessive force, including deadly force, would be to recall the days when Black Americans were killed extra-legally by lynchings.
The major Senate and midterm elections should teach all Americans, especially Democrats, one thing about the nature of the 21st century American electorate: Democrats do not win without Black voter turnout.
Perhaps, the silence of the Democratic candidates on the issue of police brutality will be the same silence America will also hear on Election Day, 2020.
The principal of a high school in the Gwinnett County area of Georgia is investigating how a racist picture made it into the school’s 2019-20 yearbook.
“This is unacceptable, and we are currently investigating to determine who submitted this photo and how our processes did not address this before it went to print,” said Collins Hill High School Principal Kerensa Wing in an apology letter issued to parents.
Graduating senior Aaliyah Williams of Collins High told WSB-TV that she was looking forward to picking up her last high school yearbook on Tuesday (June 9) but was devastated after she turned to page 148.
While the school district continues its investigation, yearbooks for Collins High will still be distributed to students but with the offensive photo blocked out.
Principal Wing is currently in the process with the yearbook vendor for a sticker of replacement photo that will soon be mailed to all Class of 2020 students that have already purchased a yearbook.
Foot Locker will “Rock the Vote” at its stores this election year. In a press release, Foot Locker announced a partnership with Rock the Vote to utilize Foot Locker retail…
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