The RaceWire Beat – 10.11.06 U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote The first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. NYPD Profiles Black Subway Riders Five Brooklyn Transit police officers blow the whistle on a captain who issued an order to stop and frisk every black man at a train station. Studying the Slave Trade Chicago Commission seeks to shape how history is or is not taught. The RaceWire Beat is a digest of the day’s top news stories on race and politics collected by the staff at ColorLines magazine.