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The Gentrification of Birmingham, Alabama
As Birmingham celebrates its 50 years forward proclamation, the city should not be simply reduced to iconic imagery while present-day racial justice is neglected.
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
Moments of Radicalization – Eddie Conway on Reality Asserts Itself
Former Black Panther Eddie Conway speaks to the Real News.
Federal Reserve Data Shows Growing Wealth Gap Based on Race
A recent Fed report showed a continuation of racial disparities in mean family wealth, median family wealth, and national family wealth share.
The Connecting Threads
With this strip, our Fashion Year culminates a year-long comics journalism investigation into connections between the garment trade and the sex trade.
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Rot From the Sepulchre
How did the “best justice system in the world” allow two black men to spend 30 years behind bars for a rape and murder they did not commit?
Pirates, Slaves and Flying Saucers: An Interview With “Undocumented in a Pirate Sea” Author Jeffrey R. McCord
Historian Jeffrey R. McCord has written and self-published a genre-crossing and bending first novel, "Undocumented Visitors in a Pirate Sea; An Investigation of Certain Caribbean Phenomena by Dr. Thayer …
Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists
Drones are now being used on US soil by the FBI, Secret Service, Texas Rangers and some local police forces.
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Mass Deportations Don’t Squelch Hondurans’ Migration Dreams
“Going to the United States is my dream, and I'll do it even if I die in the attempt.”
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Mass Incarceration Found Guilty
In “Mass Incarceration on Trial,” Jonathan Simon argues that a 2011 Supreme Court decision that will improve overcrowded conditions and neglect in California prisons may also have a positive …