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Hello Changemaker 👋 With St. Patrick’s Day coming up it's a good time to remember that the Irish were the first targets of deportation policy in the US. In American history, there has been a myth that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until the introduction in the late 19th century of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration. In fact, eastern states, especially Massachusetts and New York, developed extensive systems of state-level immigration control in response to Irish Famine immigration. Long before the federal government launched Chinese exclusion, these states refused admission to the destitute Irish and deported them to Europe as government policy. The Irish were indeed the first targets of institutionalised immigration control in the United States. |
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Does the Voting Rights Act protect language minorities? |
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🌎Yes. The Voting Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate in voting based on someone's membership in a language minority group. 🗳️ Section 203 of the VRA included language minority provisions that require certain states and political subdivisions to provide language assistance during elections for certain language minority groups who are unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process. Covered language minority groups include those who speak: Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Spanish Languages. ⚖️ If you feel that you are being discriminated against in voting, contact an attorney. |
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Meet #1 New York Times bestseller: Ibram X. Kendi |
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"BEING AN ANTIRACIST REQUIRES PERSISTENT SELF-AWARENESS, CONSTANT SELF-CRITICISM, AND REGULAR SELF-EXAMINATION." - IBRAM X. KENDI Ibram X. Kendi is known as a scholar, author, National Book Award-winner, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America. During the resurgence of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the summer of 2020, many turned to Kendi's book “How to Be Antiracist” in order to fully understand the impact of racism and implicit bias in America, and how to combat this institutionalized issue by practicing antiracism. In 2020, Kendi became the founding director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research and was named one of their 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. |
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In the News - Civil rights attorneys, Norman HS girls basketball team discuss racial slurs (OklahomaFox25)
- What you need to know about the Equity Act (AmericanProgress)
- Civil rights groups call for federal investigation into Portland Police Bureau's use of 'kettling' (KGW8)
- 5-year-old Arkansas boy forced to clean out clogged toilet with bare hands, mother says(NBCNews)
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