Today at Ms. | April 21, 2021

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Policing In America: A Deadly Disease Rooted in Slavery [Who Killed George Floyd? Part II] [[link removed]]

BY MICHELE GOODWIN | Policing is part of America’s origin story and its history of enslavement, kidnapping and trafficking of Black people. This article is the second installment in a three-part series examining police violence as symptomatic of broader social and cultural injustice, racism and anti-Blackness—including in one of America’s most liberal communities.

Table for 12, Please: Kamala Harris, Madame Vice President [[link removed]]

BY PAT MITCHELL | A deep dive into the work Vice President Kamala Harris is doing at the table—nearly 100 days into this administration. Biden has said, “There’s not a single decision I’ve made yet” about his administration that he hasn’t consulted with Harris on first.

No Democracy Without Black Women [[link removed]]

BY LAUREN BEALORE and KRYSTAL LEAPHART | Recent political victories have not moved the needle enough on Black women’s representation in state legislatures. Just 4.82 percent of state legislators are Black women. Why are there limitations to the growth of Black women in state legislatures?

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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]].

In this episode, we confront the question at the center of Derek Chauvin’s trial: Who killed George Floyd? Has racism of the North been overlooked?

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