Politics

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. [https://blavity.com/tags/dr-martin-luther-king-jr] Day comes in the midst of the most heated
fight over voting rights since Dr. King was alive. With states passing restrictive voting legislation and national voting
protections being

Virginia Lawmaker Foolishly States Frederick Douglass Debated Abraham Lincoln In Proposed Bill

Virginia delegate Wren Williams, who took office a few weeks ago, introduced
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his first bill taking aim directly at critical race th

Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby was indicted on federal charges on Thursday. She’s been charged with filing false
information and paperwork for loan applications to buy two vacation homes in Florida, The Baltimore Sun reports
[https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-mosby-indicted-20220113-ue7ca7pjujek5bf2eoinrssf54-story.html].

According to the Department of Justice, Mosby is charged with two counts of pe

Michelle Obama [https://blavity.com/tags/michelle-obama] is seeking to mobilize more than one million new voters for the 2022
midterm elections. The former first lady announced this new initiative, titled Fight For Our Vote, in an open letter published as
an advertisement in the Jan. 9 edition of the New York Times and posted it on social media. Citing

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.
CNN reports [https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/biden-voting-rights-senate-democrats/index.html] that the House voted to
combine the two proposals into a single measure that was then pas

The Senate passed a bill to posthumously honor Emmett Till with the Congressional Gold Medal. The mother of the Chicago teenager
who was killed in the 1950s by white supremacists in Mississippi will also be honored.

Mamie Till-Mobley, the teen’s mom, demanded an open casket for her son so the world could see the barbarity of his killing,
HuffPost 

Golden Globe nominee Ben Affleck recently spoke
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to The Boston Globe about his nomination for the film The Tender Bar. 

President Joe Biden [https://blavity.com/tags/joe-biden] and Vice President Kamala Harris
[https://blavity.com/tags/Kamala-D-Harris] visited Atlanta on Tuesday and delivered remarks

Legendary actor Sidney Poitier died [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/movies/sidney-poitier-dead.html] last week at age 94.
Poitier was a groundbreaking star, giving peerless performances including his 1964 starring role in Lilies of the Field