Given the daily chaos that is the year 2020, one could be forgiven for overlooking Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s recent attempts to overhaul the United States Postal Service (USPS). It is fair to ask if these changes are worth our attention during a hotly contested Presidential election, a global pandemic, severe economic turmoil, and more. […]
Author: Laura Dull
Where registering to vote could get you killed…and how this story relates to 2020, by Laura Dull
Bruce Watson starts his book, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, with the murder of Herbert Lee, a black farmer who dared to vote: “Blacks did not vote in Mississippi–never had as long as anyone could remember…Seventy-some years had passed […]