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districts to suppress Black voting power. After the US Supreme Court gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, southern states got busy on new ways of suppressing or diluting the Black vote. The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature, for example, ordered the state board of elections to run a mapping algorithm to determine

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While prominent people wielded power locally as well as internationally, working-class people sought their fortunes in Houston. Black people from rural areas migrated to the city during the Great Migration, making it the Southern city with the largest Black population, larger than that of Atlanta or New Orleans, by 1940.

colony and colonizer was unstable;

Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with

Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter took on all these issues with a sense of compassion in their respective books. Sowell’s The Intellectuals and Race is a relentless dissection of how leftists try to reconstruct racial realities to further their agenda. McWhorter’s Losing the Race is a scathing—though empathetic—attack on contemporary black

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