You can “Play Your Way” at this year’s Los Angeles County Fair, which opens Thursday. “It’s the grand opening of the 104th L.A. County Fair. The big drivers that bring people into the fair are the animals, the music and of course the food,” L.A. County Fair Association Chairman of the Board Mike Driebe said. […]

Just a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on Thursday became the first Southern state to pass a new redistricting map eliminating a majority-Black district. The hastily drawn map abolishes the state’s last Democratic district by splitting the city of Memphis, which is more […]

Nothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical—and illogical—devices the high court deployed to help end […]