Matthew B. Platt
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Hoodies on the Floor: Exploring Black Members' Legislative Response to Police Brutality
Congress – despite ever increasing numbers of black members – does not care about police brutality.
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The Paradox of Ambition
The rise of Ivy League-educated black politicians is the only potentially meaningful change in the nature of black representatives since 1947. However, the policy consequences of that change are ambiguous.
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An Examination of Black Representation and the Legacy of the Voting Rights Act
Fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there are still many questions about one of its signature achievements, …
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