A brief history of Black rebellion

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

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Summary

The fight over voting rights in the United States. How one historian is thinking about the George Floyd protests a year later. And, what the HIPAA federal privacy law says about vaccination records.

On Sunday night, Texas Democrats staged a dramatic walkout to block a restrictive voting bill from passing — but as Amy Gardner reports, this is far from the end of the battle over voting rights in the United States.

It’s been a year since the killing of George Floyd sparked a global uprising against police brutality and systemic racism. In her book “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s,” historian Elizabeth Hinton connects the Black Lives Matter protests to a long history of Black rebellions in response to police violence.

As more Americans get vaccinated, misinformation is spreading about whether requiring proof of vaccination is a violation of the HIPAA federal privacy law. Allyson Chiu explains who can ask for your vaccination status and whether you have to tell them.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	It's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Posts, Sarah Kaplan.
0:12.0	Hi, this is Elahi Azari with the Washington Post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm Alexis D.O.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, June 2.
0:25.0	Today, the fight over voting.
0:28.0	A history of protesting police brutality and demystifying HIPAA.
0:35.0	In 2020, we faced a tireless assault on the right to vote.
0:42.0	Restrictive laws, lawsuits, threats to intimidation, voter purges and more.
0:48.0	So on Tuesday, President Biden traveled to Tulsa to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre
0:57.0	in which hundreds of black Tulsa residents were killed.
1:02.0	And he took the opportunity to demand congressional action on voting rights.
1:09.0	That's Amy Gardner. She covers voting for the post.
1:12.0	You've got voters to the polls.
1:14.0	The rule of law held.
1:16.0	Democracy prevailed. We overcame.
1:19.0	But today, let me be unequivocal.
1:21.0	As for the act of voting itself, I urge voting rights groups in this country to begin to re-want
1:26.0	to again, to re-double their efforts now to register and educate voters.
1:31.0	There are two bills currently pending in Congress that would shore up voting rights across the country.
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