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North Carolina remains one of the most critical battleground states in the country in 2016. Right now, FiveThirtyEight.com projects the vote margin…
Trump’s calls for supporters to monitor voting sites for supposed fraud, including votes cast by alleged non-citizens, could result in racial profiling and intimidation at the polls
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This week, the National Basketball Association made good on a threat to pull its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte due to North Carolina’s passage of HB2
Republicans are putting Haley forward as a new, fresh face for the GOP of the future. But in the South, the core of her economic vision is eerily familiar: a low-road approach
The boycott gave everyday people, the army of unsung heroes who formed the backbone of the civil rights movement, a sense of their ability to change the course of history
The South’s flags and symbols are powerful in shaping the ideas of Southerners and transmitting views of racism and inequality from generation to generation
The leader of a right-wing group which apparently influenced Dylann Roof’s extremist views on race before the Charleston church shootings had donated tens of thousands of dollars to leading Republicans
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