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Source: ianmcdonnell / Getty In totally unsurprising news, the Louisiana state legislature has passed a new congressional map eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. According to AP, the new map redraws Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields’s district into several predominantly white communities in Louisiana, potentially giving Republicans another House

Source: UCG / Getty A lot of people, white liberals mostly, seem to be of the opinion that America is the way it is right now because President Donald Trump is president. I’m pretty sure Trump is president because America is the way it is. The racism, xenophobia, sexism, general

Source: Justin Ford / Getty While the wide-scale operations conducted by ICE and Border Patrol have largely wound down due to the nationwide backlash over the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers, that is not the case in Memphis. ICE continues to have a pronounced

Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump’s plan to give payouts to Jan. 6 Capitol rioters through an “anti-weaponization fund” has hit another roadblock after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from moving forward on implementing the fund.   According to NBC News, U.S. District Judge Leonie M.

Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty After effectively gutting the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action based on the narrative that systemic racism in America is a thing of the past, the largely conservative U.S. Supreme Court has finally made a recent decision that puts it on the right side of

Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Rupert Murdoch, and two WSJ reporters over an article the outlet published last July, titled: “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.” The

Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Earlier this month, we reported that President Donald Trump withdrew a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his tax returns getting leaked while the FBI was investigating him, and that, according to the Justice Department, in settling the case, Trump was granted a nearly

Source: Sun Sentinel / Getty Perhaps the highest court in the land feels bad for demolishing the Voting Rights Act. Maybe Clarence Thomas remembered he’s Black. Or, maybe even a group of people who are comfortable with doing Donald Trump’s bidding understand just how repugnant the NFL can be. Regardless,

Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured