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The article reports on a wave of progressive legislation springing up in Illinois, including an end to cash bail and a program to provide reparations to African American residents. It mentions that reparations and ending money bonds are just two developments that encapsulate how state and local lawmakers are grappling with white supremacy and racial inequity.

The article examines how African American voting rights were undermined by the three-word phrase "or other crime" in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Topics discussed include how antislavery Republicans left a loophole that took away African Americans' right to vote, the role of white supremacists in North Carolina in weaponizing the 14th Amendment against African Americans, and how the phrase can be reconstructed.

The article features three U.S. women who fought for racial equality in a country divided by racial politics. Frances A. Seward was the wife of Senator William Henry Seward who shared her husband's commitment to sweeping reforms for the rights of African Americans and women. Another important figure was homemaker Martha Coffin Wright who influenced Frances' hunger for reform with her stories about her sister, Lucretia Mott. Also included is the slave Harriet Tubman, who served as a catalyst for Frances' revolt against racial inequality.

The article profiles civil rights advocate Benjamin Elijah Mays. Historian Lerone Bennett Jr. conferred the title of Schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement to Mays. A number of African American men who were shaped by Mays, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Julian Bond, played key roles in the development of the movement. Mays was born in 1894 in South Carolina from parents who were former slaves. He was considered as a pillar of African American education and constructive and active citizenship.

The article focuses on a petition filed by Black South Carolinians during civil war seeking equal treatment before the law including request for equal rights in new state constitution, an exhibition of the document at National Museum and transcription of the document by Library of congress.

The article discusses various political issues in Africa. It states that when the Voster's National Party gained, power in the 1948 elections, it was committed to the oppressive policy called apartheid (separateness.) It means that the South Africa's 4.3 million whites, 18.6 million African Americans, 2.5 million mixed-blood coloreds and 750,000 Asians will proceed along separate lines of development under the guidance of the government. It notes that since 1948, Africaner government has pushed legislation through parliament that classifies the population by race, banning marriage and sex throughout the color line and imposing pass laws that control the movement of African Americans.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of July 10, 1965. Particular focus is given to the recession of optimism and the lack of impact one year after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The article also addresses the political decline of the American Medical Association. Further article topics include legislation barring African Americans in South Africa and the candidacy of William F. Buckley for mayor of New York.

Comments on a number of developments in politics in the United States. Dismissal of Scott Nearing by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and its positive impact for the cause of academic freedom; Argument that the worst servant of a democracy is the man who obeys the people because he fears them; "Grandfather" clauses whereby the Southern states prevent African Americans from voting, as a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment; Letter by Henry L. Stimson in the New York Times in which he opposes suffrage for women.

This article presents information on political and social issues of several nations. U.S. President Andrew Johnson, has delivered himself to a "distinguished senator" on the subject of Afro-American suffrage in the District of Columbia, as well as upon the proposed amendments to the Constitution changing the basis of representation. If his remarks upon the attempt to establish Afro-American suffrage in the District be correctly reported, he will probably veto the bill. There is rumor of an alliance between Austria and France, which it is said Austria greatly desires, that she may be the better able to carry out her plans for internal reconstruction, and at the same time oppose an added force to the pretensions of Prussia. A good illustration of the difficulty of protecting the public against corporations by any system of inspection, has just been afforded in the case of the Columbian Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. This company suspended payment about ten days ago, to the consternation of its stockholders and creditors-but without surprising many people actually engaged in the insurance business.

The article presents political updates of the U.S., as of November 23, 1865. At the meeting held at the Cooper Union, last week, to provide for the relief of Southern destitution, politician Henry Ward Beecher reiterated his demand for more faith in Southern men, while declaring that the freedmen, as the wards of the nation, must be protected by guarantees. Now, it is mainly with regard to the Negroes that the good faith. According to another update, the Mississippi Legislature has revised its refusal to allow Negro testimony to be received against Whites. It now proposes to admit it in all civil cases in which Negroes are parties, and in criminal cases only the testimony of the persons against whose persons or property the offences have been committed; but no Negro, it is provided, shall be examined in any case except upon the stand and in open court.

This article discusses the Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. constitution with respect to the right of African-Americans to vote. In the current debate over methods of assuring that the African-Americans in the South of the U.S. have the right to vote, very little attention has been paid to Section 2 of-the Fourteenth Amendment of the constitution. For many years major interest in this Amendment has focused on Section 1, which prohibits the states from denying to any person due process of law or equal protection of the laws. Not many people are aware that those who framed and adopted the Fourteenth Amendment viewed Section 2, rather than Section 1, as its most important provision.

The article focuses on the 55th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held recently in Washington D.C. They presented Negro reaction to the new civil rights legislation bill that promises an earthly salvation for them. Negro lawyers sketched almost bitterly the bill's weaknesses and loopholes. The act, it was agreed on every platform, was indeed a very fine document, but fell a long way short of being effectual law. The greater part of the week's discussions, and the majority of resolutions passed, dealt with the problems and possibilities and exigencies of the bill's implementation.

The article focuses on attorney C.B. King, the legal force of the Negro movement in South West Georgia. For years he has defended almost every voter registration worker and demonstrator arrested in Georgia. He filed the desegregation suit that with effect the integration of the first and second grades in Albany public schools next fall. He has a deep, rounded voice capable of sarcastic rises and confusing changes of pace. He has a prodigious vocabulary, a weapon forged on a peculiar battlefield. On April 4, he became the first Negro since Reconstruction to seek the Democratic nomination for Representative to U.S. Congress from Georgia's Second District.

An editorial is presented which shares his experience of traveling to Alaska and back to Seattle, Washington, sharing his experience with the border security and his father's view about America. He discusses the significant changes in the society that happened in the lifetime of his father and brought changes to their lives, and how his father think about communication technology instead of desegregation and highlights the need to see individuals for who they are and not for who they were.

The article focuses on the issue of violence and equal rights among African Americans. Topics discussed include the establishment of the movement Black Lives Matter (BLM) following crimes against African Americans which involve police shootings, the movement's idea on the defense of human rights and equal rights for people, and the enactment of laws which addresses related issues such as police violence.

The article features civil rights worker Bob Moses. The year was 1961. This was shortly after the Freedom Rides had shaken Mississippi and the Deep South, exposing the violence that awaited any who challenged the segregated status quo. This was also the time when African Americans were still being killed for registering to vote. He never stopped in trying to educate the U.S. Department of Justice to the necessity of breaking the link with segregation. His efforts, however, never led to a breakthrough.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the failure of bail systems in the U.S. criminal justice system. The author states that a number of U.S. citizens such as African Americans have spent months to years in prison due to bail despite they do not undergo to trial. He mentions several African Americans who faced challenges in prisons due to bail such as Kalief Browder who spent three years in Rikers Island in New York without a trial and commited suicide after his release.

The article provides an overview of racial microaggressions and the quality of the research. It explores public attitudes which reveal a substantial decline in overt racial prejudice over the past 60 years starting 2017, shifting toward the ideal of racial equality. It highlights the creation of the term "microaggression" by Chester M. Pierce of Harvard University in 1970 to describe the countless slights and dismissive behaviors inflicted by others upon African Americans.

The article focuses on the protests of football players on the U.S. national anthem, noting the supposed oppression of the country on African Americans. Topics discussed include an outline of the protests, the consideration of the actions as a reflection of gross bias, and contention of football players on the injustice against the African Americans.

The author examines the arguments made by law professor, author, and "New York Times" columnist Michelle Alexander who believes that mass incarceration in the U.S. criminal justice system constitutes a new Jim Crow due to racially motivated controls upon African Americans via convictions for nonviolent crimes. It examines arguments in her "Times" column and her book "The New Jim Crow."

Comments on the decision of a U.S. federal judge in New York to place a black defendant under a new trial who has been convicted of armed robbery by an all-white jury. Use of peremptory challenges and the exclusion of blacks from participating in the jury; Public trust in law; Problem of racial juries in states imposing the death penalty.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The author compares the U.S. government's performance to predictions by historian Henry Adams. The Voting Act of 1965, which provides opportunities for African Americans to vote and be elected to office, was a deciding factor in the U.S. Supreme Court case Allen v. State Board of Elections in which a legal statute preventing African Americans from election to county supervisor boards in Mississippi.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of "The New Republic." "Who Gets in the Army," which focused on military recruitment in the U.S.; "Desegregated Housing: Who Pays the Reformers' Ideal?," which discussed the housing rights of African Americans.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. U.S. secretary of defense Robert McNamara urged stronger attempts at diplomatic relations by the U.S. and commented on nuclear proliferation. Stokeley Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), urged African Americans to pursue social change and commented on attempts at racial integration by the U.S. Congress.

Reports on the ethnic voters in the U.S. Political awareness among African Americans in the U.S. Reference to the McCarran-Walter Act which reaffirmed the quota formula based on the population; Information on the ethnic identification program for a separate computer listing of each national origins group.

Presents information on political and social conditions of the U.S. Use of communist policies by right-wing extremists to hamper democracy of the country; Fear of communism among the people; Persuasion of Americans to resist change in the belief that all progress leads eventually to Communism; Role of election campaigns in weakening democratic conditions in the country; Spread of fear among the people of Northern states of the U.S., arising from the social tensions of North; Pressure of communism to withhold several civil ordinances in cities like Portland, Oregon; Impact of communism on the business of the firm McCormick and McCarthy; Problems of public housing faced by San Antonio, Texas; Demand of loyalty investigations in Washington and San Antonio for applicants of public housing; Efforts of liberal organizations and trade unions to restore democracy; Legal status of African American citizens in the U.S.

On September 15, 1941, a young Negro, L.C. Akins, left his work as porter in a garage in North Dallas, Texas to go to his home. He got his transfer and with a number of other persons walked toward the entrance of the Oak Lawn car that he wished to take. In doing so the young Negro either actually brushed ahead of and jostled a young white woman who was also entering the car, or her husband, who was at her elbow, thought he did. At any rate the young white man grabbed the Negro from behind. Words, blows and a fight followed instantly. The fight was marked by a gun that came from the white man's own gun. Akins was put to jail, denied bail, tried and given a life sentence. The verdict was reversed, he was tried again and this time given a death sentence, which has been affirmed.

The article presents some political updates as of March 28, 1907. One of the updates focuses on the recent remarks made by president James J. Hill of the Great Northern. He remarked in Chicago that too much has been said by railroad men already. Another update highlights the comments made in the recent issue of the periodical Richmond Times-Dispatch. The periodical reports with pride upon the acquittal at Danville, Virginia of a Negro accused of criminal assault on a white woman in the county of Amherst. The trial at Danville proceeded with regularity and without any excitement whatever and the Negro was able to prove an alibi, and was duly acquitted.

The article presents the author's views on various issues related to the presidential elections in the U.S. in November 2016. Topics include the leadership of President Barack Obama, the efforts of politician Fannie Lou Hamer to lobby for African Americans to vote in the 19th century, and the Whigs political party that was once influential. Other topics include the country's two-party system and electoral politics.

The article presents seven short reflections on the Black Lives Matter African American social justice movement, particularly highlighting its relation to and implications for Christianity. Authors cited include African American Christian scholars Reggie L. Williams, Anthea D. Butler, and Brian Bantum.

The author reflects on his 2014 trip to Mississippi to consider his work and how the 1965 Voting Rights Act had secured the right to vote for African Americans. It discusses the implications of the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision on the legislation, the defacing of the statue of James Meredith in Neshoba County by three members of a fraternity at Ole Miss, and the protection of the Voting Rights Act.

In 2000, Virginia became the last state in the nation to add party labels to its ballots for state-level races. This article assesses the impact of this reform on citizen participation and the partisan behavior of down-ballot voters using precinct-level election returns. It finds that after the application of labels, roll-off in contested, down-ballot races dropped by about a percentage point, a reduction of approximately 15%. Roll-off dropped more in precincts with a larger share of African Americans. Also, the association between Republican vote shares in the Lt. Governor and state legislative races and presidential vote share in the 2000 general election became stronger in the presence of party labels. This result suggests that the labels made voters behave more as national partisans in state-level contests. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers author's insights regarding the state of surveillance from law enforcement on Black Americans. Topics discussed by the author include the significance of targeted surveillance in indiscriminate collection of data, the proposal of Total Information Awareness predictive policing model, a policy which use advance technology to and data analysis to prevent crime.

The article presents opinion on questions about privilege, race and the value of African American life in the U.S. According to author Isabel Wilkerson, Africans Americans must know in their hearts that they can survive anything if the ancestors could survive the Middle Passage. Educator Melissa Harris-Perry states that she felt a need for someone to want the African American baby to live as they witnessed the indifference of a legal system that permits African American death to go unpunished.

The article reports that some Syracuse University students traveled to Ferguson, Missouri as part of the Black Lives Matter Ride, a national advocacy campaign to improve justice within the African American community following the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown from a police officer.

The article focuses on the difficulties and humiliation faced by people of different color in the U.S. It talks about the rules and regulations constructed for the African Americans after the end of Civil War by the U.S. justice system. It tells about the lynchings of the blacks during the Civil war and World War in U.S. after they were convicted of crimes by the legal system. It speaks about the known case of legal lynching Scottsboro Boys where the convicted were given death sentence.

An interview with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is presented on how he makes decisions influencing the country without neglecting the African American community. Topics covered include the efforts of Holder's group to protect the right of African Americans to vote, his thoughts on Stand Your Ground laws, and how the Fair Sentencing Act is helping African Americans charged with drug possession as of September 2014.

The article presents information on American civil rights activist Roy Wilkins with specific reference to his devotion to achieving equal rights under the law for the nation's African Americans.

The article assesses the long-term political and cultural impact of the "Black Power movement" in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. It explains that the term "Black Power" was first used by political activist Stokely Carmichael in order to encourage African-Americans to seize equality for themselves rather than relying on a white-dominated government to implement reforms. It also describes how the movement fostered a growing sense of racial pride within the African-American community.

The article focuses on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King in changing the laws concerning the treatment of African Americans.

The author reflects on the election of the U.S. President Barack Obama for the future of the country. She points out that the best for the country is more essential than on which candidate looks more. She considers election as a proof that the world is changing and that it is humbling to live through history making. She found comfort in opening up her family and relieved and surprised to find out that they agreed with her.

The article discusses incidents and cases of bussing segregation and race discrimination against minorities in the U.S. It cites the case of minority Sarah Davis, who was arrested in 1943 for sitting between two White men in front of the bus. It also mentions the case of defense worker Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, who filed a discrimination lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court.

The article discusses how the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, considered the most successful civil rights law in American history, has helped some African Americans, such as Senator Barack Obama, succeed in politics. It also explores how the law explains the discrepancy between the percentage of blacks elected in legislative districts and the percentage elected to the highest state offices across the U.S.

The article argues that the commitment of Christian minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. to the cause of civil rights was evangelical in line with the annual celebration of his life and legacy in January 2020. Topics covered include role of the biblical notions of justice in his activism for civil rights, attempts to link King to Marxism and Communism, and King's commitment to non-violence in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans.

The article informs on a political debate between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas on October 13, 1858, Quincy, Illinois on national struggle over slavery. It mentions about Dred Scott decision in which free states could not ban slavery because the court said the Constitution protects the slaveholder's property right in slave ownership.

The article informs on a political debate between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas on October 7, 1858, Galesburg, Illinois on national struggle over slavery. It mentions that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution of the U.S., wherein Supreme Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed.

The article informs on a political debate between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas on September 18, 1858, Charleston, Illinois on national struggle over slavery. It mentions that according to Abraham different States have the power to make a Black citizen under the Constitution of U.S. if they choose. It also mentions the comments of Douglas on social and political equality of Black people, and voting and Black citizenship.

The article informs on a political debate between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas on August 21, 1858, Ottawa, Illinois on national struggle over slavery. Topics include whether Black people should have equal legal rights to whites; whether the territories should be able to decide whether to have slavery; and whether the Dred Scott decision had to be obeyed in stating that Black people were not people under the Constitution.

The article focuses on the efforts of Republican African American political candidates to gain winning votes in the U.S. midterm elections in November 2006. Former Mayor J. Kenneth Blackwell runs for governor of Ohio, ex-sports commentator Lynn Swann campaigns for governor of Pennsylvania and Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele seeks to be the first African American senator from Maryland.