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In the Balance of Power - A Politics for the People Conversation with Author Omar H. Ali

In the Balance of Power – A Politics for the People Conversation with Author Omar H. Ali

On Sunday, February 21st, people from across the country joined Politics for the People host Cathy Stewart for a conversation with Dr. Omar H. Ali, author of In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States. Click on the video below to watch the full conversation.

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Reader's Forum -- Catana Barnes & Jessie Fields

Reader's Forum — Catana Barnes & Jessie Fields

Catana Barnes

The Overweight Brainby Lois Holzman is the best book I have read in a very long time! I found what I experienced by reading the book to be very freeing. I related with chapter 5 the most because I was labeled difficult and oppositional in school. The fact of the matter was that I was very bored and the school couldn’t figure out what to do with me. More interestingly is the…

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Reader's Forum -- Dr. Jessie Fields

Reader’s Forum — Dr. Jessie Fields

Dr. Jessie Fields (Center)

Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States by Jeremy Gruber, Michael Hardy, and Harry Kresky.

This is a comprehensive law review article that helps us understand where we are in terms of constitutional law in the current battle for equal voting rights for unaffiliated voters.

The U. S. Constitution begins, “We the…

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Reflections on Reflections on The Notion Of Family

Reflections on Reflections on The Notion Of Family

  By Omar H. Ali, Ph.D. I first saw images of Latoya Ruby Frazier’s riveting book of photographs, The Notion Of Family, in an NPR article about six months ago entitled “A Rust Belt Story Retold…” I wasn’t sure what to make of the images, as they felt a little distant at the time, despite my being familiar–as a historian of black labor and politics–with some of the history of those communities…

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