A Promised Land by Barack Obama review – an impressive but incomplete memoir
Thursday 26th November 2020,
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US minority voters and the future of the Republican party
Monday 23rd November 2020,
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Gary Younge on minority voters and the future of the Republican party
Monday 23rd November 2020,
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Rashly Filling the Void
Thursday 19th November 2020,
He is the product of a dislocated society. He is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out. Whether he’ll follow some gaudy, hysterical leader who’ll promise rashly to fill the void in him, or whether he’ll come to an understanding with the millions of his fellow workers…depends upon the future drift of events in America.
Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote
Tuesday 17th November 2020,
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In March 1965, ABC interrupted a showing of its Sunday-night movie – Judgment at Nuremberg, a courtroom drama about Nazi war crimes – to show shocking footage from Selma, Alabama, where mostly Black protesters were being beaten bloody by mounted police with billy clubs as they tried to cross Edmund Pettus bridge into the city, demanding the right to vote.