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Bret Schafer

MEDIA & DIGITAL DISINFORMATION FELLOW ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY

David Levine

ELECTIONS INTEGRITY FELLOW ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY

The memes circulated around Facebook and Twitter, promising voters a more streamlined option to participate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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A'Shanti F. Gholar

PRESIDENT EMERGE; FOUNDER, BROWN GIRLS GUIDE TO POLITICS

In 2019, women across the country watched with immense pride as, for the first time in history, six women stepped into the ring and made their case for why they should be the next president of the United States.

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DR. BERNARD E. ANDERSON

ECONOMIC ADVISOR NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE; WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Imagine, for a moment, an old-school freight train. Now imagine that freight train as a stand in for the economy with African Americans relegated to the caboose. When the train speeds up, so does the caboose. And when the train slows down, the caboose does likewise.

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Dr. Kristen E. Broady

DEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & BARRON HILTON ENDOWED PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT DILLARD UNIVERSITY

Since their establishment 182 years ago, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have provided African American students with the best avenue, and, for some, the only path to a college degree.  Despite this, arguments for and against the existence of HBCUs have been debated sinc

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Benjamin Crump

FOUNDER BEN CRUMP LAW; CIVIL RIGHTS & PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY

We have long known it to be true that it is dangerous to be Black in America. We have all watched the cell phone video and body cam footage of unarmed Black men—with hands raised in surrender—shot and killed by police.

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