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May 25, 2021 3:06 pm | By 75043It’s Time for a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. I am eager to see a brilliant Black woman serving as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I hope to celebrate her swearing-in later this year. If you’re thinking, “Did I miss something?”…
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May 18, 2021 5:23 pm | By 75043Ted Cruz’s Wildly Dishonest Defense of Voter Suppression
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless liar. And he isn’t even a very good one. Witness his latest dishonest defense of Georgia’s new voter suppression law. Cruz published a column in the…
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May 18, 2021 11:15 am | By 75043THE ADVOCATE: Act Locally to End Anti-Black, Anti-LGBTQ Police Violence
This op-ed by People For the American Way President Ben Jealous and the National Black Justice Coalition Executive Director David Johns was published in The Advocate on May 18, 2021. As in far too many police shootings of Black Americans,…
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May 11, 2021 12:48 pm | By 75043Greater Justice is Coming: Taking on Abusive and Deadly Policing with New DOJ Leadership
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Thanks to the voters who elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we now have a Department of Justice that actually cares about justice. And I am not just talking…
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May 5, 2021 1:00 pm | By 75043Chauvin Is Guilty. Our Work Is Cut Out for Us.
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Just a few days have passed since Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the murder of George Floyd. But the images from that moment are seared in our memories forever: the murderer, led away in…
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May 1, 2021 3:58 pm | By 75043D.C. Statehood Is a Voting Rights Issue… and Racial Justice Issue
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Washington, D.C. has a higher percentage of Black residents than any state in the country, and they have no voting representation in Congress. This is systemic racism in action. It is long…
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April 25, 2021 3:16 pm | By 75043THE HILL: For true law enforcement accountability, change must come from the bottom up
This op-ed by People For the American Way President Ben Jealous was published in The Hill on April 25, 2021. Hearing the words “Guilty.… Guilty…. Guilty” in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial brought millions of Americans a feeling of relief. But…
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April 24, 2021 3:03 pm | By 78426NEWSONE: After The Derek Chauvin Verdict, We Can Push Local Governments To Change Policing
This op-ed by noted civil rights leader, historian, and People For the American Way Board Member Mary Frances Berry was published in Newsone on April 24, 2021. Moments after Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts in the murder of…
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April 22, 2021 3:58 pm | By 75043We Urgently Need Kristen Clarke at the Justice Department
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Kristen Clarke is a brilliant lawyer and Americans would be lucky to have her working for us. President Joe Biden has nominated Clarke to lead the Civil Rights Division at the U.S.…
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April 15, 2021 1:57 pm | By 75043Biden Offers Diverse Judicial Nominees
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. People who care about equal justice under the law should be very happy about President Biden’s first set of judicial nominees. I am especially excited about the three outstanding Black women that President…
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April 12, 2021 3:23 pm | By 75043
THE HILL: As the Chauvin Trial Continues, the US Must Reinvent Public Safety
This op-ed by People For the American Way President Ben Jealous was published in The Hill on April 12, 2021. On the third day of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial for the killing of George Floyd, the city council of…
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April 8, 2021 5:33 pm | By 75043
Justice is on Trial in the George Floyd Murder Case
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun, 10 months after George Floyd died in the street with Chauvin’s knee on his neck. Americans, especially Black Americans, are watching…
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April 5, 2021 5:54 pm | By 78426
Speaking Out for Women of Color Nominees
The op-ed below originally appeared in OtherWords and various other publications. Women know that our progress is often characterized by two steps forward, one step back. For women of color, the obstacles are even greater. And so, as the Biden-Harris…
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March 31, 2021 4:25 pm | By 72328Why the Aptly Named For the People Act Deserves Senate Support
In an op-ed for the right-leaning Washington Times, People For President Ben Jealous makes a strong argument about S. 1/the For the People Act that the paper’s regular readers might not often hear. The Act, he writes, is all about…
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March 31, 2021 10:18 am | By 75043Racism And Its Deadly Cousins
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. What does it say about our country when we don’t have time to absorb the impact of one mass shooting before news of the next one comes across our phones and TV…
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March 25, 2021 7:16 am | By 28186Biden and Senate Must Promptly Fill Vacancies on Key Appellate Courts
Although former President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate did tremendous damage to people’s rights by appointing 54 judges to the powerful federal courts of appeals, one step below the Supreme Court, President Biden and the Senate now have an important…
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March 23, 2021 9:35 am | By 75043Black Farmers And COVID Relief
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. If you ever begin to doubt that elections matter, think about Black farmers. The new COVID relief law takes significant steps to address decades of shameful discrimination against Black farmers by the…
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March 12, 2021 10:08 am | By 63584Right Wing Watch: The Week’s Weirdest Moments on the Extreme Right
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Mind-controlling mosquitos, gaslighting the Capitol insurrection, “Incitement to Ruin” Scratching the Itch Right-wing personality Mark Taylor, who likes to be known as “the firefighter prophet,” has some novel theories about the COVID-19…
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March 12, 2021 9:55 am | By 75043Women’s History Month Is the Right Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. It is time for a maximum push for a new minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has not budged for more than a decade. But the cost of living keeps rising. So,…
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February 24, 2021 1:11 pm | By 62609Virginia Lawmakers Have a “Moral Responsibility” to Support the For the People Act
In a Feb. 22 op-ed published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, People For President Ben Jealous and Rev. Gregory King outline why Virginia lawmakers should support the For the People Act, a democracy reform package that would restore the full protections…