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RT @BrennanCenter: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority used outdated examples to say the racial gap in voter turnout has closed, but… #VoterTurnout #RacialJustice #SupremeCourt #Thetweetprovideddoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

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The NAACP has accused Tennessee Republicans of intentionally discriminating against Black voters with a newly approved congressional map. #CivilRights #VotingRights #RacialJustice #US #TN #IN

NAACP says Tennessee redistricting intentionally discriminates on basis of race

RT @cwebbonline: I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymand… #VotingRights #Gerrymandering #RacialJustice #Nospecificcountrycodesarefoundinthetweet.

In the late 1940s, Bill Chapple controversially named a small building on his farm "Uncle Tom's Home," referring to the fictional character from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, while it actually housed the real-life Josiah Henson, an abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad, whose legacy was later overshadowed by the negative connotations of the name "Uncle Tom," leading to a decades-long campaign that ultimately resulted in renaming the site to the "Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History" in July 2022. #BlackHistory #Abolition #RacialJustice #CA #US #GB

Reclaiming the Name of the Black Hero Who Inspired 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'