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Deborah Berry

Washington, D.C.

Washington Correspondent at USA Today

National correspondent for USA TODAY covering civil rights, voting rights, politics. Class of 23 Nieman Fellow, @UofMaryland grad, @washpressclub bd president

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  • 1 week ago | usatoday.com | Deborah Berry

    After years of legal challenges, photos of an enslaved man and his daughter held at a Harvard University museum will be transferred to an African American museum in South Carolina where the family is believed to have lived. The nude photos of Renty and his daughter, Delia, taken in March 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, were the subject of a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier against Harvard.

  • 1 week ago | commercialappeal.com | Deborah Berry

    The nude photos of Renty and his daughter, Delia, taken in March 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, were the subject of a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier against Harvard. The photos commissioned by Louis Agassiz, a 19th-century Harvard biologist, are believed to be the earliest photos of American slaves. The images, known as daguerreotypes and taken in a South Carolina studio,  were used to promote racist beliefs.

  • 2 weeks ago | lohud.com | Deborah Berry

    The push by House Republicans and the Trump administration to require voters to show proof of citizenship could imperil Native American votes. WASHINGTON ‒ Senate Democrats and voting rights advocates are pushing to defeat a GOP election bill they said could disenfranchise Native American voters.

  • 2 weeks ago | dnj.com | Deborah Berry

    The push by House Republicans and the Trump administration to require voters to show proof of citizenship could imperil Native American votes. WASHINGTON ‒ Senate Democrats and voting rights advocates are pushing to defeat a GOP election bill they said could disenfranchise Native American voters.

  • 2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Deborah Berry

    WASHINGTON ‒ Senate Democrats and voting rights advocates are pushing to defeat a GOP election bill they said could disenfranchise Native American voters. Republicans led passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE Act) in the House, but Democrats and advocates have slammed the bill, which among other things would require voters to show proof of citizenship in person for federal elections.

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Deborah Berry
Deborah Berry @dberrygannett
7 May 25

These are America's most endangered historic sites. Can they be saved? https://t.co/wYhoe2jdc7 via @USATODAY, ⁦@SavingPlaces⁩

Deborah Berry
Deborah Berry @dberrygannett
5 May 25

RT @dannowicki: "Trump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say." (via @dberrygannett) https://t.co…

Deborah Berry
Deborah Berry @dberrygannett
5 May 25

Judy Richardson said Trump’s moves go beyond just rolling back civil rights gains and attacks all Americans: “It’s important that we, who organized in the 1960’s civil rights movement, don’t view this as just ‘another rodeo.'' https://t.co/GI6S2phSW6 via @usatoday , @SNCCLegacy