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Oregon's Eva Chapin arrested for leaving n--word post-it notes on neighbor's door

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Eva Chapin, 34, from West Linn, Oregon, was booked into jail after she left a string of offensive post-it notes on the door of the family home A mother has been arrested for referring to her African-American neighbors as 'apes' during a dispute over a parking space. Eva Chapin, 34, from West Linn, Oregon, was booked into jail after she left a string of offensive post-it notes on the door of the family home. Read More...

Sherrilyn Ifill on a Trump win: We will cease to be a democracy | US constitution and civil li

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Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington DC in 2018. Ifill aims to train a generation of lawyers on the 14th amendment. Photograph: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesSherrilyn Ifill in Washington DC in 2018. Ifill aims to train a generation of lawyers on the 14th amendment. Photograph: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe fight for democracyUS constitution and civil libertiesInterviewSherrilyn Ifill on a Trump win: ‘We will cease to be a democracy’Rachel LeingangThe longtime civil rights lawyer on the 14th amendment, a new center for Howard University – and resisting Read More...

Student loan forgiveness isn't dead yet, and other takeaways from 2023

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Federal student loan borrowers have had quite a year. If the story of their 2023 could be written by the ghost of Herman Melville, he'd have plunged borrowers into the frigid depths, bound to a white whale big enough to embody the disappointment of millions of Americans who spent the first half of the year hoping to be free of their student loans, and the second half realizing they and their debts were still intertwined. Read More...