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Details: Written by By Royce West, Texas Senator, 23rd Dist. (D); Published: 19 August 2021

Royce West

For members of Texas Legislature and those who work in its orbit, the days since the 87th Regular Session ended on Memorial Day have been anything but a summer break or a return to our lives as part-time lawmakers.

Details: Written by By Ben Jealous; Published: 04 August 2021

Ben Jealous

It’s been six months since the Biden-Harris administration began, ushering in an era of hope after four bitter and disheartening years.

Details: Written by Advocates with Multnomah County's Victim and Survivor Services Unit; Published: 29 July 2021

Multnomah County Building

The number of incidents of community violence — domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, person-to-person violence and gun violence — is devastating

Details: Written by By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Newswire Contributor; Published: 22 July 2021

The rippling effects of a massive economic downturn has caused the nation to lose 9.5 million jobs - more losses than even those of the Great Recession

Details: Written by By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint; Published: 20 July 2021

Majority Whip Clyburn, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, made the observation that the filibuster currently being used in the U.S. Senate to block the Voting Rights Bill as well as the George Floyd Bill, is a matter of tradition and not a part of the U.S. Constitution.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 14 July 2021

NAACP Vancouver reacts to the descision in the case of Jonah Donald, a Black man shot and killed by a Clark County deputy

Details: Written by Oscar H. Blayton; Published: 07 July 2021

The systemic racism in the American criminal justice system is obvious to all who care to see it. And one of its worst abuses is the policy of qualified immunity.

Details: Written by By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor; Published: 01 July 2021

Police violence is at the root of Pride Month, just as it is at the foundation of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Details: Written by Mike Lindberg, Former Portland City Commissioner and Stephen Kafoury, Former Oregon State Legislator; Published: 30 June 2021

Our City Parks Bureau is bringing to the city council a plan for redoing the South Park Blocks at a cost of $46 million, when it is clear that Portland's Eastside is parks deficient

Details: Written by Nina Hudson Turner; Published: 29 June 2021

Nina Hudson Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American politician and educator from Ohio.

When mainstream media largely ignored the Black community, or positioned us in an unfavorable light, the Black press has been the lighthouse that has illuminated our paths

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