Supreme Court Silences Black Voices in Alabama; DEADLINE Feb 20: Apply for CLDP; MPAC Celebrates Black History Month

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Issue 65: Friday, 18 Feb 2022


THIS WEEK IN DC — THIS WEEK IN DC —Biden Weighs Temporary Protected Status For Afghans; Senate Passes Bill To Avert Government Shutdown; GOP Reps. Call For Release Of Security Footage Amid Allegations Of 'Reconnaissance Tours'; Senate Judiciary Chair Wants Supreme Court Pick Confirmed By Early April; Department Of Justice Sues Missouri Over Gun Rights Law; The White House Says It Will Make More High-Quality Masks Available For Kids; GOP Candidates And Leaders Subpoenaed As Jan. 6 Panel Dives Into Fake Electors Scheme; Senators Aim To Rewrite Child Safety Rules On Social Media; McCarthy Endorses Cheney Primary Challenger; Senators Struggle To Present Unified Front Against Russia; Dilawar Syed, Biden's Small Business Nominee Gets A Spot At State.

IN THIS ISSUE
* Featured Issue: Supreme Court Silences Black Voices in Alabama
* DEADLINE Feb 20: Apply for our 2022 Congressional Leadership Development Program
* MPAC Celebrates the Diversity of American Muslims this Black History Month


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** Supreme Court Silences Black Voices in Alabama
By: M Baqir Mohie El-Deen, MPAC Policy Program Manager

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Alabama’s Congressional district map. (Birmingham News file)


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Earlier this month, the Supreme Court reinstated a voting map which effectively deprives Alabama’s African American community of adequate congressional representation. The lower courts previously concluded ([link removed]) that the voting map disenfranchised African Americans by connecting the majority African American parts of Birmingham, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa with the African American-majority counties in the southwest of the state. As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, Alabamians will head to the midterms with a voting map in clear violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. As an additional consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision, Alabama Republicans will likely retain a seat in Congress they would have otherwise lost.

African Americans constitute 30% of Alabama’s voters, but they will likely have only 14% of their state’s representation in Congress — one of seven congressional seats. Redrawn voting maps would have been more equitable…

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** DEADLINE Feb 20: Apply for our 2022 Congressional Leadership Development Program
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The deadline is fast approaching to submit your application for our 2022 Congressional Leadership Development Program (CLDP)! Are you or someone you know ready to avail this unique opportunity valued at $10,000?

Our CLDP program is offered at zero cost to accepted candidates and places youth in a coveted Capitol Hill internship position for 10 weeks during the summer. Fellows gain critical first hand experience on how Congress functions, what goes on behind closed doors – and what the legislative process actually looks like.

Deadline to submit applications is Sunday, February 20th!

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** MPAC Celebrates the Diversity of American Muslims this Black History Month
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Join us for our final TwitterSpace Conversation this Black History Month with our evening conversations to unite the American Muslim communities. You can catch the conversation next Thurs, Feb 24 at 8pm ET on Twitter ([link removed]) .

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* Black Muslim life ([link removed]) honored in new online portrait exhibit
* Op-Ed: As a Muslim filmmaker, I want to tell ([link removed]) my own story
* State senator who once denigrated Islam as a 'cult of hate' seeks ([link removed]) recognition for Muslim holidays
* Jewish, Muslim stand-up comedians to share ([link removed]) a stage in 'Comedy for Peace' event in Milwaukee


- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -

Feb 13, 1258 - Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols, ending the Abbasid Caliphate; Feb 14, 1958 - Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms; Feb 15, 1989 - Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends; Feb 16, 1927 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey; Feb 17, 1568 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace; Feb 18, 1955 - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance; Feb 19, 1986 - King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with Palestine Liberation Organization.


Feb 13, 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as President; Feb 14, 1803 - Seraph Young becomes the first woman to legally vote in the modern United States, two days after the Utah legislature passed a law allowing women the vote; Feb 14, 1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken; Feb 15, 1943 - Wartime propaganda poster "We Can Do It!" produced by J. Howard Miller is posted on the walls of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company's plants in the Midwest for the first time; Feb 15, 1799 - The first printed ballots are authorized within the United States; Feb 16, 1968 - US first 911 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama; Feb 16, 1951 - NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing; Feb 17, 1972 - US President Richard Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. for a groundbreaking trip to China; Feb 18, 1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest
of slavery in Germantown, PA; Feb 19, 1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.

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