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As a child, I vividly remember my Puerto Rican mom always watching the Oprah Winfrey Show, and I distinctly remember Oprah Winfrey and her show being my first real exposure to black culture, besides my black father and his family.
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Lesley Williams
Today, Black History Month is an invitation to face with confidence the tragedies and trials that break our hearts, to be fearless in hope and unyielding in our fight for justice — for all of us.
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Carol Lautier, Ph.D.
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If the goal is to resegregate higher education, the efforts have largely worked. Amid budget cuts and attacks on affirmative action, elite public colleges are enrolling fewer black students than they were a generation ago.
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Mark Huelsman

We write to applaud the introduction of HB 57, which would end felony disenfranchisement and facilitate full political and civic participation for thousands of New Mexico voters.

Testimony and Public Comment
We must find ways to meaningfully engage with each other, to open our homes to each other and to have the hard conversations.
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Rodney McKenzie, Jr.
We at Demos are acutely aware of, and actively fighting against, the racist policies, beliefs, political tactics and narratives that have created and deepened the racial divide in our country. On this third annual National Day of Racial Healing*, we are reflecting on the ways in which we can unite
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Lucy Mayo
Rodney McKenzie, Jr., Vice President of Campaigns and Partnerships shares his thoughts on National Day of Racial Healing.
In the media
Rodney McKenzie, Jr.
What does MLK stand for to you? Rodney McKenzie, Vice President of Campaigns and Partnerships, shares his reflections on what MLK Day means to him.
In the media
Fighting Structural and Historic Racism K. Sabeel Rahman President Racism has long driven pervasive political, economic, and social disparities in this country. Those inequities arise not just from individualized and blatant forms of discrimination but also through historical, cumulative, structural
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The racial equity groups’ have a formal partnership that has seen them work collaboratively over the past 5-7 years to clear barriers to the ballot box, champion the humanity of undocumented communities and communities of color, organize to stop mass incarceration and end the criminalization of
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