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Elections Changes Backed in Senate

Midway through the 2023 legislative session, Republican lawmakers Tuesday began advancing a sweeping elections package that would impose further restrictions on voter-registration groups, create a new crime for harassing elections workers and relax campaign-finance reporting rules. […]

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Why ASALH is Going to Florida

      Like many of you, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) has followed the actions that Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis and other conservative lawmakers have taken against teaching Black History and the histories of other historically marginalized communities. […]

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Jaques 1st Black winner of Kazmaier Award as best in NCAA women’s hockey

     Blake Bolden is a scout for the Los Angeles Kings and former defenseman at Boston College from 2009-13. She was the first Black player to compete in the National Women’s Hockey League that was rebranded the Premier Hockey League in 2021 and won championships in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (2015) and NWHL (2016). She said it was amazing to witness a Black woman be nominated two years in a row and win the award. […]