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Ohio senator: ‘Jim Crow has been resurrected’
An Ohio Democratic senator slammed her state’s Republican party and accused them of racially-motivated voter-suppresion tactics during an interview with CNN’s Deborah Feyerick Tuesday. “It’s tragic that in the 21st century, 2012, we have voter suppression going on,” Sen. Nina Turner (D-OH) said. “Jim Crow has been resurrected, making repeat…
AFL-CIO report: Alabama immigration law ‘parallels to Jim Crow’
An AFL-CIO report released Thursday determined that a recent immigration law “hearkens Alabama back to the bleakest days of the state’s racial history.” HB56, which went into effect September 28, follows similar laws in Arizona and Georgia, which have been challenged by the administration of President Barack Obama as infringing…
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