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![A woman holds a Black Lives Matter flag along with protesters holding signs during the Occupy City Hall Protest and Car Caravan hosted by Chicago Teachers Union in Chicago, Illinois, on August 3, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1227896191-400x300.jpg)
Schools That Ban Symbols of Antiracism From the Classroom Are Normalizing Racism
Black students deserve public school systems that support rather than traumatize them.
![Demonstrators are gathered outside of the Texas State Capitol during a voting rights rally on the first day of the 87th Legislature's special session on July 8, 2021, in Austin, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1233876545-400x300.jpg)
Struggles for Voting Rights Will Shape the Fate of Abortion Access
In places like Ohio, partisan gerrymandering has paved the way for aggressive abortion restrictions.
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White Nationalists on Trial in Charlottesville After Victims Sue Under KKK Act
Organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally have been charged with unlawful conspiracy to commit violent acts.
![A mural of George Floyd peers over the heads of people walking on the sidewalk](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/2021_1027-george-floyd-400x300.jpg)
Liberal Anti-Racism Is Fixated on Symbolic Gestures. We Need Concrete Action.
Framing slavery as “original sin” has led liberal anti-racism into a dead end of inaction.
![Ahmaud Arbery's Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors in Murder Trial](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/seg1-ahmaud-trial-protest-400x300.jpg)
Ahmaud Arbery’s Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors in Murder Trial
Jury selection began this week in the trial of three white men who fatally shot the 25-year-old, unarmed Ahmaud Arbery.
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No, Black People Can’t Be “Racists”
The term “racism” must be understood within the context of an anti-Black American polity.
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Food Apartheid Threatens BIPOC Children’s Health. Food Sovereignty Is the Fix.
Food apartheid is just one way that racism enters our babies' bodies.
![A demonstration in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Freedom Plaza on October 11, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/2021_1011-Indigenous-PEoples-day-2-400x300.jpg)
Indigenous People With Disabilities Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
The escalating climate crisis is increasingly impacting Deaf, disabled and ill Indigenous people.
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The US Has Used Conservatorships to Exploit Indigenous Peoples
Breaches of trust were documented in which conservators took money or lands for their own monetary gain.
![Family of Henrietta Lacks Files Lawsuit over Use of Stolen Cells, Lambasts Racist Medical System](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/seg2-lacks-400x300.jpg)
Family of Henrietta Lacks Sues Over Racist Theft of Cells for Biotech Profit
The “HeLa” cell line has played a part in cancer research, the polio vaccine and even COVID-19 vaccines.