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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJanuary 17, 2012
The attorney general says that the principle of electoral equality is still endangered.
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December 13, 2011
Blogging the Beltway: The attorney general puts new voting practices on notice -- but also slams some of the old ones.
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December 12, 2011
Blogging the Beltway: The attorney general's upcoming Texas speech won't announce legal action, but it will still be historic.
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December 2, 2011
Blogging the Beltway: The Obama administration thinks so, issuing new guidelines supporting school diversity programs.
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by Joshua R. Weaver onOctober 10, 2011
Black students are often removed from school for minor infractions, says a new report.
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by Sheryl Huggins Salomon onApril 7, 2011
Just days after kicking off his 2012 re-election bid, Obama addresses a convention for the reverend's activist group, with cabinet members in tow.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMarch 4, 2011
Says allegations of Justice Department reverse racism "fly in the face of history and facts."
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March 3, 2011
Attorney General Eric Holder referred to blacks as "my people" during a House subcommittee hearing. What's the problem?
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July 9, 2010
It's in everyone’s best interests to find out why, after having a blackjack outside a polling place and calling people “crackers," the Justice's sole movement against King Samir Shabazz was an injunction barring him from having a weapon within 100 feet of a polling place.
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July 6, 2010
The Justice Department’s dismissal of voter-intimidation charges against members of Philadelphia’s New Black Panther Party, a decision at the center of testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Tuesday, is one in which every American -- particularly ones of color -- should be interested.
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