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• “Terran Orbital is thrilled to break ground on 4 Goodyear,” said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell.

• Last year, these organizations partnered with animal welfare groups to form the " Final Stretch Alliance to End Horse Slaughter ," a collaborative effort urging federal lawmakers to pass a permanent ban on slaughter.
• "The slaughter of horses for human consumption is a barbaric practice that has no place in America," Rep. Buchanan said.
• As a proud animal lover, we owe it to our horse companions to protect their welfare."
• By including the SAFE Act in the 2023 Farm Bill, Congress can start a new chapter for America's equines and finally end the cruel, unnecessary practice of horse slaughter."

• FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) will host the 10th annual Congressional Conference May 22-23 in Washington, D.C.
• On the second day of the Congressional Conference, attendees will go to Capitol Hill for meetings with their Senators, Representatives, and Congressional staff.
• Through events like the Congressional Conference, state-level legislative days, and in-district meetings during the summer congressional recess, NAIFA develops and recognizes members who are politically involved.
• No one can tell them better than NAIFA members, and the Congressional Conference is our best vehicle for reaching a large, attentive audience of policymakers."

• The law was justified by supporters as an effort to curb the city’s crime level, which includes one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
• Throughout U.S. history, I see three main periods of legislative disenfranchisement in which legislative bodies have voted to expel members.
• These events have been shown to be a form of “white backlash” working to keep Black officeholders out of power and their constituents powerless without representation.

Reconstruction and legislative disenfranchisement

• After the Civil War, the United States engaged in a brief period known as Reconstruction, which lasted from 1865 to 1877.
• The efforts included formally abolishing slavery nationwide, guaranteeing equal protection of the laws to everyone regardless of race, and allowing formerly enslaved people to vote.
• But after Tennessee politician Andrew Johnson, who had been Abraham Lincoln’s running mate in 1864, took office upon Lincoln’s assassination, many of those provisions of Reconstruction were reversed.
• Collectively, the legislative expulsion of the Black officials and the imposition of the Black Codes served to effectively disenfranchise the Black voters of Georgia.

The civil rights era

• Another major effort to disenfranchise Black Americans came during their next major push to achieve political, social and economic equality: the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Opponents targeted two prominent civil rights activists who had been elected to represent their communities: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Julian Bond.
• A year later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Bond’s First Amendment rights had been violated and ordered that he be seated.
• Bond ultimately served in the Georgia legislature for another two decades, before turning to teaching and activism.
• He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York and from any state in the Northeast.

Black Lives Matter movement

• In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, a new social movement emerged across the United States.
• In May 2022, Tiara Young Hudson, a long-serving Black public defender, won the Democratic primary for a judgeship in Jefferson County, Alabama.
• Their alleged violation was participating in a protest against the legislature’s rules – but their real violation, I believe, was that they were Black, outspoken and pushed for change.