SCOTUS will soon decide whether it'll gut Section 2 of the VRA and effectively disarm courts from addressing racially discriminatory voting practices. This moment isn’t just about Louisiana's map — it’s about protecting Black voters’ right to fair representation, Damon Hewitt writes.

Trump uses Jesse Jackson’s death to argue he’s not 'a racist' www.alternet.org/send/trump-j...

Ran into Jesse Jackson in 2013 in Jackson. He and I were attending the banquet honoring Medgar Evers, 50 years after his assassination. Hate to hear of Rev. Jackson's passing.

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Jesse Jackson Sr. was an American hero whose impact will be felt for generations. Through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition he taught us to “Keep Hope Alive,” and his leadership uplifted not just Black Americans, but people across the world.

It's a great day to remember that we cannot rely on the discernment of the American people. They did elect the most despicable, corrupt, cruel, ignorant, and lawless president ever to hold office, knowing a great deal about what he intended to do. So there's that.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context. The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries. Here's my youtube-splaination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Trump called Jesse Jackson "street smart," and you should hear this as coded language.

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

Federal prosecutors in Texas are seeking to convict protesters on "domestic terrorism"-related charges. The chilling implication: anything that feels "at odds with this administration’s policies could be considered domestic terrorism," says @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social.

The story of Montrealer Gloria Baylis isn’t a well known one www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Jesse Jackson. A civil rights titan. A minister. A politician. A father. A husband. A friend. Another American great has passed away.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Remembering Jesse Jackson: Tributes pour in for the late civil rights leader www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

White Mob Lynches Willie Earle Near Greenville, South Carolina calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love by Reverend James Lawson Jr, Emily Yellin, & @esglaude.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-M...

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong. With @texastribune.org

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances. reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...

NEW: Civil rights groups including the NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials in a raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election hub last month.

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On this day in 1847, Missouri passed an act that prohibited Black people from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade free Black people from migrating to the state.

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

UPDATE: “FBI formally notified Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on it will not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence that it has collected in the 1/24 shooting death of Alex Pretti.” 🤔A lawless regime. Abolish ICE. dps.mn.gov/news/bca/sta...

Billionaire Trump Donor Closing U.S. Plant and Moving Work to China newrepublic.com/post/206603/... via @newrepublic.com

This is a great loss for TSU's historical built environment! What a shame!

“I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.” ~Women’s rights & suffrage advocate Susan B. Anthony, after being fined $100 for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. She died in 1906 never having paid the fine. Anthony was born on this day in 1820. Image: Public domain.

Michael Jordan's 23XI NASCAR team just won the Daytona 500

NC5: “Criminal cases involving undocumented immigrants make up 2% of the overall crime in Tennessee — vast majority are traffic violations.” Undocumented violent crimes = two-tenths of 1% of the overall crime in TN. Remember that as Republicans paint this as our biggest issue.

I brought the issue of Black maternal health and morbidity to Congress nearly 10 years ago. I’m proud to have introduced the first maternal healthcare bill in Congress and I was able to pass into law an extension from 60 days to 1 year for Medicaid postpartum care.

Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it. https://to.pbs.org/3NunWgA

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face. snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...

The Sunday Morning Wrap-Up @joycewhitevance.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin www.amazon.com/Policing-Wom...

Gertie Brown & Saint Suttle embrace in a silent film from 1898.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Democratic chief election officials of six states are denouncing two new voter suppression bills making their way through Congress — underscoring how the legislation would place a huge burden on voters and election administrators just as midterm election season kicks off.

DOGE representatives allegedly used ChatGPT to identify approximately 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants related to diversity that were terminated in April of last year, according to a new released court filing. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Thomas Albus, a federal prosecutor from Missouri, authorized the seizure of roughly 700 boxes of election material in Georgia — far outside of his usual jurisdiction. Former U.S. attorneys say that type of authority is rare. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Able to read and write at the age of 2 1/2, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa Schuyler was often compared to Mozart. Suffering the sting of racism and sexism, Philippa was rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States. #BHM www.amazon.com/Composition-...

The administration has weaponized the Department of Justice, which now has become a direct threat to elections. Former DOJ officials at the Brennan Center join The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss. bit.ly/4ctIZKl

Great replacement theory casts immigrants as stealing jobs from Americans *and* diversity programs as stealing jobs from White Americans. Great replacement theory frames immigrants *and* Black Americans as fraudulently voting.