Month: August 2023

WaPo: “A White man armed with a high-powered rifle covered in swastikas killed three Black people after opening fire Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., before fatally shooting himself, local law enforcement said, describing the attack as racially motivated. “He targeted a certain group of people, and that’s Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff…

WaPo: “Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans marched on Washington for jobs and freedom. In describing his dream for us all, Dr. King spoke of redeeming the “promissory note to which every American was to fall heir” derived from the very idea of America — we…

MS Today: “Based on Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ campaign rhetoric and how he spends his campaign funds, it is reasonable to think he believes transgender issues are the state’s No. 1 problem. A Reeves campaign commercial is airing statewide, claiming his Democratic challenger Brandon Presley “supports sex change and puberty blocking drugs for children.” Reeves…

NY Times: “Representative Andrew Clyde has been in Congress only since 2021, but he has quickly emerged as a vocal opponent of gun control, handing out dozens of AR-15 pins to exemplify his wide-ranging push to roll back federal firearms regulation. At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing in April, Mr. Clyde, Republican of Georgia, grilled…

PBS: “Tennessee lawmakers returned to the state capitol this week for a special legislative session in response to the Covenant School shooting, where three children and three school staff members were killed in March. Laura Barrón-López discussed what lawmakers will or won’t do amid public outcry with Nashville Public Radio’s Blaise Gainey.” [Click Link for…

WaPo: “Sixty years ago, they converged on the National Mall from across the country,to demand their nation fulfill the promise of the American Dream for all. Some arrived with intent, others by happenstance. They were college students and college dropouts, activists who organized in city offices and in sharecropping shacks, workers on Capitol Hill and at the…

TX Observer: “Late last Thursday, the Texas Senate uploaded exhibits from the state House investigators for the upcoming impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton. It was a document dump of epic proportions, comprising nearly 4,000 pages of records, ranging from blockbuster interview transcripts from marquee witnesses; emails from Paxton’s friend and Austin real…

Tampa Bay Times: “A Florida judge signaled skepticism Thursday that he could uphold Gov. Ron DeSantis’ congressional districts after Florida’s lawyers admitted the districts violate the state constitution. Lawyers for the governor and the GOP-controlled Legislature conceded that their congressional map reduced Black voting power, but they argued that the alternative — a Jacksonville-to-Gadsden County district that protects…

WaPo: “In September 1957, nine Black Arkansas teenagers entered the all-White Little Rock Central High School in an episode that became iconic in the civil rights movement. The teens were part of school integration efforts that followed the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional….

WaPo: “On a June evening in 1998, three White men chained a Black man by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck anddragged him for several miles down a twisting country road in this small East Texas town, decapitating him in the process. The next day, pieces of James Byrd’s body were found…