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[https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089533698/maud-newton-couldnt-ignore-her-familys-racist-history-so-she-published-it by Ari Shapiro, Lauren Hodges, Justine Kenin 29/3/22 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089533698/maud-newton-couldnt-ignore-her-familys-racist-history-so-she-published-it by Ari Shapiro, Lauren Hodges, Justine Kenin 29/3/22 npr] | ||
Everyone's family tree has some gnarled branches. In the author Maud Newton's past, there are ancestors who committed violence, extremism, racism and worse. Rather than shove that inheritance under the bed in a locked box, she excavates it in her new memoir, "Ancestor Trouble." | Everyone's family tree has some gnarled branches. In the author Maud Newton's past, there are ancestors who committed violence, extremism, racism and worse. Rather than shove that inheritance under the bed in a locked box, she excavates it in her new memoir, "Ancestor Trouble." | ||
=====Georgia’s runoff elections have segregationist roots===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-racist-history-behind-georgias-runoff-elections by Nicole Ellis 3/12/22 PBS NEWS] | |||
Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff election pitting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock against Republican Herschel Walker is historic for having two Black candidates representing major parties on that state’s ballot. But the voting law that mandated a runoff when neither candidate won a majority in November’s election is actually a vestige of racist legislation. | |||
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