A susceptible Republican congresswoman in Virginia set off an uproar from Democrats after she agreed with remarks by an area radio host who stated that Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House minority chief and a Black man, ought to preserve his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” The dust-up surrounding the congresswoman, Representative Jen…
With its decision this week in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court gutted a core a part of the Voting Rights Act, Congress’s landmark prohibition on voting guidelines which have the impact of excluding individuals of shade from the political course of. In doing so, the court docket has, not for the first time, claimed…
Looking again, Crenshaw means that her traumatic childhood impressed her compassion for marginalized and invisible individuals. Even as we see the pall of unhappiness elevate — Crenshaw has some enjoyable when she works as an undergrad “smooth-groove cupid” DJ on late-night radio — the theme of repressed ache persists all through her Ivy League schooling…
