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Joravsky and Hanania anlyze today’s Chicago City Council with the past on podcast | #citycouncil

Chicago Reader journalist and podcaster Ben Joravsky, who has covered Chicago City politics since 1981, interviews former Chicago City Hall reporter and columnist Ray Hanania on his special “Oh, What a Week” podcast which is available on most major podcast platforms. Hanania covered Chicago City […]

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Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu, shows off photo from ‘electeds of color’ holiday party after defending gathering

News By Nicholas McEntyre Published Dec. 16, 2023, 2:06 a.m. ET Boston Mayor Michelle Wu proudly shared a photo of the controversial “electeds of color” holiday party she hosted on Wednesday, showcasing all the smiling government officials of minority backgrounds at the “no whites” gathering. “Last night was my turn to host the annual holiday […]

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defends electeds of color’ holiday party after invitation backlash

News By Nicholas McEntyre Published Dec. 14, 2023, 12:48 a.m. ET Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended holding a holiday party for “electeds of color” just hours before hosting the controversial gathering inside the city’s official reception hall Wednesday. Wu admitted it was a mistake that every member of the Boston City Council received invitations to […]

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What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars – POLITICO

It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church. The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the […]

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Eugene City Council meeting adjourned for second time by hate speech | #citycouncil

EUGENE, Ore. — For the second time, Eugene’s City Council meeting was interrupted by hateful speech, specifically anti-Black and anti-Semitic slurs during the public forum segment on November 13. A virtual attendee identified as “Rudy” began a rambling speech which ended in racist remarks. City officials immediately cut off the speaker and adjourned the meeting. […]

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Hate speech disrupts Portland City Council meeting, brings Mayor to tears | #citycouncil

Hate speech disrupts Portland City Council meeting, brings Mayor to tears Zoom bombers target Portland City Council Updated: 6:49 PM EDT Sep 20, 2023 During public comment at Monday night’s Portland city council meeting, several people tuned in over zoom spewing off-topic or racist comments. Portland Mayor, Kate Snyder, calling for a break in the […]

Alabama

Opinion | Republicans in Alabama and Florida Are Attacking Civil Rights Gains | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

In May, 1901, 150 white men gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to rewrite their state’s constitution. They elected John Knox, a prominent lawyer, to chair the convention. Knox said in his opening speech: “[W]hat is it that we want to do? Why, it is to establish white supremacy in this state… we must establish it by […]

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Court tosses Alabama Republicans’ racist re-districting map aimed at suppressing Black votes – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14, 2023. to watch a redistricting hearing. Federal judges said Tuesday, Sept. 5, that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, […]

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Alabama Republicans resist U.S. Supreme Court order to draw second Black-majority congressional district | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Friday proposed a new congressional map that would include a single majority-Black district in the state, a plan that could defy a Supreme Court order to give minority voters a greater voice in elections. Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Senate passed the plan 24-6, with the House speeding toward […]

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Alabama senator says white nationalists are racists after weeks of declining to say so | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday backed off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.” Tuberville’s brief comment in the hallway, after a regular weekly lunch with his GOP Senate colleagues, follows several media interviews in which he has repeatedly declined to describe white […]