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The United States’ “Post-Racial” Lie
White Americans have no right to judge the outpouring of black anger in Ferguson.
Khalil Muhammad on Facing Our Racial Past
Khalil Muhammad discuss the importance of confronting the contradictions of the US' past to better understand the present.
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It’s Mourning Again in America
The arrows of justice have long been masked as scales - they are the arrows used to justify the continued mass incarceration of the country's black population.
Obama Appeals Order to Publish Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tapes
The Obama administration has today appealed against a federal judge's ruling that videotapes showing force-feeding of a Guantanamo prisoner should be released.
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The Prejudicial System
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I Am Undocumented and I Am Unafraid
The following remarks were made by Gustavo Madrigal-Pina responding to harsh Georgia laws criminalizing immigrants and prohibiting “Dreamers.”
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The Fallacy of Right-Wing Appeals to Race in Criminal Justice Reform
Ferguson and cities across the world took to the streets in continued protest of the police homicide of Mike Brown and a seemingly endless list of mostly young Black …
43 US Cities to Hold Vigils, Protests Demanding Obama, Congress End “Plan Mexico” Drug War Funding
In Mexico, more than 100,000 people have been murdered and more than 25,000 have been disappeared since the beginning of Plan Merida.
Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore
In January 2015, The Feminist Wire and the University of Arizona will co-host the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona.
Revelations of “Postracial” Ferguson
“Postracial” Ferguson reveals much about the attempt to erase race, along with police and other structural violence, from public reference.