One thing: I know Americans love to romanticize the 60s and Civil Rights movement and MLK.

But we have a whole US anti- South African Apartheid movement history we can and should be using as a historical, internationalist frame work.

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When my oldest brother Hiram came out in the 80's he was not accepted in the Central District because he was Gay and he was not accepted on Capitol Hill because he was Black. There was no safe space for him and others in the Black LGBTQ community.

I lost my beloved brother 19…

Our democracy reporter Robert Downen is sharing the Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism with Mike Hixenbaugh Antonia Hylton of NBC News.

Rob is the first Texas Tribune journalist to win this award—and the first Texan to win since Molly Ivins, in 2006.

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Thanks to the 2023 Nyhan Prize selection committee of Thomas Patterson Cheryl Thompson-Morton Denise-Marie Ordway & Nick Nyhan for their work in selecting this year's winners!

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Police in Mississippi shot an 11-year old child. Now the state may take away custody from the child’s mother and is citing the shooting as a reason, implying she’s indirectly responsible: mississippifreepress.org/41067/mother-c…