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As Illinois Democrats continue to seek a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines after the Highland Park massacre on July 4, critics of gun safety laws voice a familiar rebuttal:

“Her voice will be missed, I think even by those who hated to see her walk into the meeting,” brother says

It’s widely understood that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evolved significantly on the issue of reparations during his short lifetime. Toward the start of his career, he was a moralist in his thinking, rather than the radical economic thinker he later became. In 2018, I befriended Dr. King’s…

Civil rights activists and some lawmakers are concerned that new redistricting maps in three Southern states will dilute the voices of Black people