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These two states are responsible for most of the nation’s school book bans
It’s Banned Books Week, and books by James Baldwin, Terry McMillan, Amy Tan and Agatha Christie made PEN America’s index of school book bans for the first time.
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Will Big Tech be held accountable when it comes to violence against women?
The White House outlined actions tech companies are taking to prevent image-based sexual abuse. Some advocates remain skeptical.
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Millions of Americans have long COVID: Will Kamala Harris acknowledge them?
She is part of an administration that many advocates believe turned its back on COVID. Still, some see more hope in a potential Harris presidency.
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Harris holds a big lead with Asian-American voters, new survey shows
Support for the Democratic ticket is back up to 2020 levels among AAPI voters, many of whom say racism and discrimination is their top issue.
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Despite federal protections, LGBTQ+ people are being mistreated at work
The experiences of nonbinary people, who are largely young and racially diverse, are especially fraught, new data shows.
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Trump, contending with unpopular GOP abortion bans, turns focus to women
Six weeks out from Election Day, recent polls show women picking Vice President Kamala Harris by double-digit margins, suggesting the potential for a historic gender gap this year.
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‘Preventable’ and ‘predictable’: In Atlanta, Harris addresses deaths tied to Georgia abortion ban
"That story was the personification of the Black maternal health crisis," Harris campaign co-chair Sen. Laphonza Butler said of Harris’ retelling of Amber Nicole Thurman’s death at a Georgia campaign event.
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What Biden’s $1.3 billion investment in HBCUs means this close to Election Day
Appealing to Black voters during a neck-and-neck presidential race, both the Biden-Harris administration and former President Donald Trump have touted the funding they’ve routed to HBCUs.
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Baltimore County is big and diverse. Its council is all male and very White.
Despite the growing diversity of the county, no woman has been elected to city council 2010.
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North Carolina’s Mark Robinson faces new scrutiny after reports of disturbing comments on porn forum
The GOP gubernatorial candidate, backed by Trump, called himself a ‘black Nazi’ and made comments on abortion and porn featuring trans women that contradict his public stances, CNN reported Thursday.