Because I want to use this introduction to correct a gap in the show today – entirely of my doing – I’ll have to rush a bit to tell you what you will hear about. Here we go: Booker T. Washington and Racial Conservatism Washington’s Tuskegee Institute and his “machine politics” W. E. B. Du Bois and the Niagara Movement …
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President Donald Trump recently criticized American domestic policy wherein if you’re born on US soil, you are automatically granted citizenship. Trump says he would like to change that policy, which would require circumventing the 14th amendment to the Constitution. Voices in the Street asks area listeners about jus soli, or the right to citizenship if someone is born on US …
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Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky filed a lawsuit against the Indiana State Department of Health this morning. The suit is a challenge to the constitutionality of Senate Enrolled Act 340. The law, passed earlier this year, imposing new requirements on abortion providers. It also compels all doctors to report any medical complications that occur during or after an abortion. …
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