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Human Rights
Black and Palestinian Solidarity: Beyond Conceptions of “Natural Allyship”
To become stronger, Black American and Palestinian solidarity efforts must include deeper challenges to anti-Black racism.
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Sizzling Hot Takes
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Close Guantánamo and Return It to Cuba
President Obama has the constitutional power to shut down the prison there and return Guantanamo to Cuba.
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More Black Victims Claimed by Florida’s Violent Landscape
What role did cultural and geographical practices in creating institutional whiteness and a fear of Blackness play in the killing?
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Drafting a Feminist Constitution
A feminist constitution begins from the ground up.
“We’ve Never Had Privacy”: Hamid Khan on How the Surveillance State Impacts Marginalized Communities
Hamid Khan from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition discusses the surveillance-industrial complex and its profound impacts on our lives.
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John Cusack and Arundhati Roy | Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Democracy's been taken to the workshop and fixed to be market-friendly. Once, the US waged wars to topple democracies, now it's fighting to install them.
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A Pandora’s Box of Racism: Institutional Support for Blackface at a “Liberal” University in Bed-Stuy
White creativity has always been more highly valued than Black feelings.
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Racial Slurs Have No Place in Football
For Native Americans, the NFL season offers regular reminders that our rights still aren't fully recognized.
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Asylum Seekers Squat in Empty Buildings While Waiting for Netherlands Approval
The northwestern European country expects to take more refugees but important questions remain.