Freshmen Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has given 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders her endorsement. The 78-year old senator from Vermont received the endorsement from Omar in on Tuesday night in a video that she released on Twitter. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is expected to endorse…
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Julián Castro Has Ideas for Police Reform: Protecting People of Color
To start off the week, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro released a comprehensive plan to overhaul policing in the United States. The plan’s main goal? To prevent shootings of unarmed people of color. This is Castro’s third policy proposal so far since announcing his candidacy and the plan has three goals…
Archived: States Still Seek To Restrict Voting Among Minorities 50 Years After Voting Rights Act
Fifty years following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was designed to prohibit states from using tactics that made voting more restrictive for Blacks, several states currently have laws in place that serve to do just that, and a majority of state legislatures are considering similar restrictive…