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![US and Confederate flags fly at a residence in the Fancy Bluff neighborhood on May 7, 2020, where Ahmaud Arbery lived in Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery was shot and killed by an armed father and son in the nearby Satilla Shores neighborhood on February 23, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1212154358-400x300.jpg)
The Confederate Flag Represents Sexual Violence
The topic of sexual violence is often left out of the history of chattel slavery.
![A new report exposes the foster system as rife with racist drug war attitudes and state violence.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-skd281402sdc-scaled-e1593360386791-400x300.jpg)
The Foster System Is a Battleground for the Racist War on Drugs
A new report exposes the foster system as rife with racist drug war attitudes and state violence.
![A newly-erected fence blocks the front of a vacant home that Moms 4 Housing activists occupied during a months-long protest which ended in a court ordered eviction, in Oakland, California, on January 28, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1199285783-400x300.jpg)
Spiraling Eviction Crisis Threatens More Renters With Homelessness
The patchwork of legal protections for renters that emerged at the start of the pandemic is unlikely to stem the crisis.
![200+ Unhoused People Sheltering in Minneapolis Hotel Now Face Eviction](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/SEG4-Minneapolis-Sanctuary-3-400x300.jpg)
Over 200 Unhoused People Sheltering in Minneapolis Hotel Now Face Eviction
Using hotels for emergency housing is an obvious answer as the economy enters a depression in the midst of a pandemic.
![A protester with a megaphone addresses the crowd at a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the U.S. Embassy on June 5, 2020, in Vienna, Austria.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1217780224-400x300.jpg)
Outside of the US, the World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots
The United States is paying the price for denying people what Malcolm X called “the right to be a human being.”
![The Secret Service built large fences around Lafayette Square in an attempt to safeguard Trump, whose vile messages like “It's MAGA night at the White House” appear aimed at inciting further violence from the state and potentially white supremacists. Protesters on June 2 were not deterred as they raised their fists in the air and called for liberation, chanting: “The ballot or the bullet. Vote Trump Out.”](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0604-w-protest-08-400x300.jpg)
DC Residents Take to the Streets to Demand End of Police State
Protesters continue to pour onto the streets in spite of curfews and other attempts to stifle demonstrations.
![Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, a local workers center, organized a free food shelf near the intersection where George Floyd was killed by police. The organization sprang into action as soon as the protests started last week, handing out masks and personal protection equipment to protesters and gathering donations of food and water.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0604-minneapolis-mutual-aid-400x300.jpg)
Uprisings Are Driving a Surge in Mutual Aid in Minneapolis and Beyond
Neighbors are coming together to build strategies for keeping each other safe without the police.
![Woman wearing facemask, concerned behind shadows of blinds](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0602-covid-abuse--400x300.jpg)
To Become Safer Amid Pandemic We Must Explore Our Responses to Abuse More Deeply
Safety planning in close quarters with those who cause harm requires thinking about how to be, if not safe, then safer.
![After making three passes by the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in their cars, some of the protesters walk back toward the hospital to speak to the media in Boston on May 17, 2020. People associated with Massachusetts Acting for Change Together (MassACT) staged a car caravan demonstration to protest the treatment of those in psychiatric hospitals and other group settings.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0601-covid-psychiatric-hospitals-400x300.jpg)
Amid COVID, People Involuntarily Confined in Psych Hospitals Must Be Released
COVID-19 is highlighting the dangerous conditions inside psychiatric hospitals.
![A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), carrying a Hellfire missile flies over an air base after flying a mission in the Persian Gulf region on January 7, 2016.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/GettyImages-503832796-400x300.jpg)
US Border Patrol Is Using a Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis Protests
Customs and Border Protection has been flying the drone during protests against the police killing of George Floyd.