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How the Electoral College’s Racist Roots Manifest Today

Alexsis Rodgers will never forget a solemn experience eight years ago as she witnessed Virginia’s electors cast their votes for Hillary Clinton despite a devastating loss. Donald Trump lost the popular vote back then, but still garnered more electoral votes than Clinton. He then went on to attempt to overturn the 2020 election when he […]

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‘It’s Been a Long Time Coming’: Kamala Harris Wants to Be the First HBCU President

Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris not only grew up in San Francisco’s East Bay Area with the divorced mother who raised her but with various play-aunts and uncles too. These fictive kin included her Uncle Sherman, who taught her chess so she would know how to move in the world, and

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The FBI Stops Dozens of Domestic Attacks Each Year. Under Trump, That Could Change.

This story was reported in partnership with The Trace. It was the sort of stomach-churning conspiracy you’d expect to find in a dystopian neo-Nazi novel. A white Arizona man was indicted in June on firearms charges for allegedly plotting to shoot people in Atlanta in an effort to incite a race war before the 2024

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Toxic Air and a Maternal Mortality Crisis in America’s Steel Town

This series was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship.  Kimmie Gordon sat in her car, watching the sky darken as she waited for her 15-year-old son, Kaleb, to finish football practice. It is one of five sports her teenager plays despite living with chronic asthma. Over an hour stretched on, but

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These States May Have Their First Black Elected Officials on Capitol Hill

For Shomari Figures, it’s virtually impossible to separate this political moment from the long, winding arc of civil rights history. The Democrat and former White House staffer is facing off against his Republican opponent, Caroleene Dobson, to represent Alabama’s newly drawn, majority-Black 2nd Congressional District following a major U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2023. This

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