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@Ferguson: It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Every day, a generation is sending a message on YouTube to the world: It's been a long time coming. Change is gonna come. Oh yes it will.
Lawmakers and School Officials: Stay Out of Our Bodily Wastes
Being poor was the only suspicion needed.
Coal Miners Are Mad…and Scared and They Have a Right To Be
I saw poverty on that trip in those hidden Appalachian valleys that I'd not seen since the Kennedy-Johnson era and the War on Poverty days.
Ukraine: The Collapse of the Liberal “Left”
War - is peace! Freedom - is slavery! Democracy - is the limitation of all rights! Freedom of speech - is silence!
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Brazil’s “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest” Faces Death Threats
In Brazil there is no specific programme to protect indigenous people facing threats.
Ferguson Exposes the Reality of Militarized, Racist Policing
This is a teachable moment for the nation that presents an opportunity to transform policing so it serves the people.
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Supremacy: A Social Order of Division, Control and Enslavement
I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.
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Dancing While Lying Dead in the Street
The history of the US has taught us that Black life has not always been valued and now we are being reminded of that.
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How Conyers Pulled Off Another Landslide
Conyers gave an emotional victory speech to the hundreds of supporters still at headquarters on the need to correct the growing “income disparity” in America.
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Riddles, Lies, and Lives – From Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali to Albert Einstein and Barbie
Eduardo Galeano's book, “Mirrors” is a history of humanity in 366 episodes, from our first myths to late last night.