The Mississippi residents, through attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center and private law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett ... The practice of stripping voting rights away from people for ...

Sixty years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the legislation prohibited discrimination in public spaces and employment, Black Americans share memories of Jim Crow laws It’s almost at ...

Department of Sociology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA The twenty-first century COVID-19 epidemic revealed a U.S. public health system that countenanced health inequities and a U.S. public ...

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