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Michigan Senate passes CROWN Act to prevent hair discrimination

The Michigan Senate has passed legislation to confirm wearing natural hair should not prevent anyone from rising in the workplace, in education or in society in general. Renee McCauley, a […]

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Middle Eastern, North African race checkbox added to Illinois state forms

Illinois HB 3768 passes both Houses

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Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno calls for reparations for white people

On Tuesday, far-right Republican and Donald Trump-affiliated businessman Bernie Moreno called for reparations for white people who died in the Civil War as he announced his candidacy for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio.

FBI investigating GOP Oklahoma officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters

GOP officials from McCurtain County, Okla. are being investigated by the FBI after they were caught on tape expressing their frustration about it not being socially acceptable beat up and hang Black people, as well as their desires to hire hit men to kill newspaper reporters.

Chicago’s Black wards contribute more, receive less funding from Tax Increment Financing, new report finds

Majority Black wards contributed nearly half of the record-breaking $2.3 billion sitting in Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) accounts as of January 2022, a new CivicLab report found. But the city’s 18 Black wards received less TIF funding in 2021 than the city’s 14 majority white wards, which contributed less than a third of that money.

Potential Wisconsin Senate candidate Scott Mayer in Islamophobic 2015 post: Something must be done ‘with this Muslim crap’

WisPolitics first reported Tuesday that Wisconsin businessman Scott Mayer is contemplating running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in 2024. The potential candidate would have to reckon with his history of racist, Islamophobic social media posts.

Top Minnesota Republican uses ethnic slur on Senate floor

During the end of a legislative session on Tuesday, Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson (R-East Grand Forks) used the anti-Polish term “Polack” while contending that Republicans are not racist.

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