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'People underestimated them': Advocates for Black women in politics want the Democratic Party to learn from the midterms
Runs by Cheri Beasley, Val Demings and Stacey Abrams both underscored long-standing challenges to Black women who run — and showed their potential.
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Black women helped drive record early voting in Georgia. They’re not done.
Organizers were offering rides and information about how to make a plan to vote Tuesday in a state with high-profile races for Senate, governor and state legislature.
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Could Jennifer-Ruth Green be the second Black Republican woman in Congress?
She’s running to flip an Indiana House seat red, as a number of women and people of color did in 2020. Here’s what that says about her party and our politics.
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A Pasadena school is the nation’s first named after Octavia Butler — and it’s her alma mater
The late science-fiction novelist hoped to broaden the horizons of Black children. Her former junior high has a STEAM focus and serves more than 90 percent students of color.
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The Supreme Court’s multiracial women justices clap back at challenges to affirmative action in colleges
At oral arguments Monday, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson represented the court’s liberal side.
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The 19th Explains: How two Supreme Court cases could end affirmative action in colleges
In oral arguments Monday, a student organization is challenging the admissions diversity policies at both private and public schools for the first time.
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More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. What can be done to save more lives?
A nurse practitioner and member of a Maternal Mortality Review Committee says targeted interventions and community-based care are key to prevention.
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NAACP climate director explains why now is the time to fight environmental racism
Abre’ Conner, the group's director of climate and environmental justice, discusses how policy leaves Black communities vulnerable to pollution — and how that can change with the midterms.
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Black mothers are at the center of a fight to keep youth out of an adult prison in Louisiana
Legal advocates say moving incarcerated youth to the once notoriously-violent Angola prison will traumatize them and limit their access to needed programs and services.
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The racist L.A. City Council tape wasn’t a surprise to this Black Angeleno
Analysis | Cross-cultural tensions have long existed in Los Angeles, but the current crisis offers an opportunity for real healing and true collaboration.