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Why the cost of water for poor Black Detroit voters may be key to Kamala Harris winning – or losing – Michigan

  • Written by Ronald Brown, Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
imageProtesters in Detroit rally to support the 2020 election results and other causes.Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The threat of violence was in the air at the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2020, after former President Donald Trump claimed that poll workers in the city were duplicating ballots and that there was an...

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