When no one in Mississippi wins a majority of votes in an election, the legislature chooses the winner. This has led to white men winning over and over.
National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
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Although fewer black women were lynched in the US than men, their stories have been marginalized. Will a new memorial in Alabama help make their sacrifices known?
The nation has struggled with school integration since school segregation was outlawed in 1954.
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Some communities are seeking to secede from larger school districts to form their own school districts in the name of ‘local control.’ But court rulings find race is often at play.
Shoppers browsing vegetables at a farmers market.
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Almost 100 percent of black Alabamians voted for Doug Jones. The Democratic senator-elect can thank this key base by addressing his home state’s problems with rural poverty, education and health care.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls for Roy Moore to step aside. He later said “let the voters decide.”
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The word disruption describes an upheaval of institutionalized ways of doing things. Disruptors draw few distinctions between the valuable and less-valuable features of institutions.
Doug Jones supporters celebrate his stunning victory.
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Doug Jones has won a tough battle to represent Alabama in the US Senate; meanwhile, the crucial byelection in Bennelong is neck-and-neck, with huge implications for the government if it loses.
Women protest against child marriage in Albany, New York.
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A scholar from Alabama’s Auburn University at Montgomery explains how Republicans have slowly but utterly taken over Alabama politics, even while squabbling amongst themselves.
Jeff Sessions gets ready to face the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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When serving as Alabama’s attorney general, Sessions supported a bill that would have expanded the state’s death penalty – even past the point where it was constitutional.
White painter William Gilbert Gaul’s To the End (1907-1909) uses the loyal slave trope.
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In October 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed and introduced far-reaching changes to immigration policy in the US. At the time, Representative Philip Burton said in Congress: Just as…