The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais gutted the Voting Rights Act and, as Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent, “threatens a half-century’s worth of gains in voting equality.”
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On this day in 1903, several thousand white people lynched a Black man and attacked Black neighborhoods in Joplin, Missouri, burning homes and forcing every Black person to flee the city.
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On this day in 1944, six white men in Amite County, Mississippi, lynched the Rev. Isaac Simmons, a Black minister and farmer, so they could steal his family’s land. His family then fled, fearing for their lives.
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White people lyched thousands of Black people and destroyed dozens of black communities. Be careful about asking for a White History Month. I don't think you guys can handle four weeks of hearing about atrocities your people committed in this country. Just food for thought