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Naomi Bethune

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Naomi Bethune, James Baratta

    ‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. Lowndes County is rural and impoverished, and its scars are in plain view. Residents have been plagued with a decades-old raw sewage crisis so horrible that a United Nations special representative traveled to Alabama to investigate. After discovering cancer-causing emissions, federal officials fined a plastics plant on U.S. Highway 80, the historic route of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march. Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Naomi Bethune

    What Voter Suppression Looks Like in Practice - The American Prospect (opens the original)

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    In May, just days after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, clearing the way for states to institute gerrymanders that dilute minority voting strength, Tennessee became the first state to capitalize. Tennessee’s new congressional map eliminated the state’s sole Democratic seat, a majority-Black district that covered Memphis. Protesters showed up outside and inside the State Capitol in Nashville to rally against the gerrymander. Speaking to the Prospect, state Rep.

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Naomi Bethune

    A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy - The American Prospect (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. Wearing an ankle monitor is painful. They’re physically heavy and often fitted tightly, restricting movement. They affect one’s ability to sleep, and are incredibly sensitive; certain movements can set them off. Since June, many Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders have received letters advising them to report to local ICE offices, where they are fitted with ankle monitors. It’s marketed as an alternativ

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Naomi Bethune

    Trump Wants Black People Barred From Med School - The American Prospect (opens the original)

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    In May, the Justice Department announced its findings that the Yale School of Medicine uses race in admissions reviews despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling striking down those race-based programs. After a nearly yearlong investigation, the department claimed that a Black or Hispanic student had “a substantially higher likelihood of being offered admission than a White or Asian student with the same academic credentials.” Yale recently announced that the university plans to negotiate changes w

  5. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Naomi Bethune

    Michigan’s Democratic Primary Could Hinge on Black Voters - The American Prospect (opens the original)

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    Today, voters in Michigan head to the polls to decide one of the year’s most highly contested Democratic primaries. It’s become a political tradition where two Democrats, one entrenched in the establishment and the other a progressive (at least by comparison), go head-to-head. U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Abdul El-Sayed, a former public-health official who ran for governor of Michigan in 2018, have waged intense and at times personal campaigns against each other. The winner will almost cer

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