endorsements

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/8/2023
  

  Joe Louis was the World's Most Popular Athlete; Racist Businessmen Refused to Let Him Endorse Fords

  by Silke-Maria Weineck

  Market research documents related to the Ford Motor Company's refusal to grant retired champ Joe Louis a dealership franchise reveal a combination of middle-class prejudice and the willingness of the business world to accommodate Jim Crow. 

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• 2/26/20
  

  What’s at stake when newspapers abdicate their duty to endorse candidates? Plenty.

  by Rita Kirk

  The other 97% — local elections — matter.