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Condemnations of Chicago “Looting” Prioritize Property Over Black Lives
We must develop an understanding of violence that includes the closing of schools, eviction and mass unemployment.
Confederate Monument Protests Gain Momentum in Small Alabama Town
Black activist group Project Say Something has tried to have the monument to racism removed since 2017.
“Kinship” Isn’t Enough — Harris Must Be Accountable to Black People
Kamala Harris's relationship to Black communities, writ large, has taken on the character of “fictive kinship.”
Lynching Is Not a Relic of a Jim Crow Past. It’s a Modern Form of Racial Terror.
Modern lynchings illustrate how Blackness continues to be criminalized.
Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19
Harvard research shows POC workers are more likely to report inadequate PPE and to work with COVID-positive patients.
Trump Dismisses John Lewis’s Legacy Saying, “He Didn’t Come to My Inauguration”
Trump also reduced Lewis's role in the civil rights movement, saying there were “many others” who took part besides him.
We Should Invoke the Genocide Convention in Response to Fatal Police Shootings
Based on the definition of genocide, an argument can be made that the U.S. is guilty of genocide against Black people.
Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Her Online Schoolwork Is Released
A Michigan teenager who had been detained since mid-May after not doing her online schoolwork was released on Friday.
Bill Clinton Used John Lewis’s Funeral to Disparage the Black Freedom Struggle
Who is Bill Clinton to weigh in on whether or not civil rights organizer Kwame Ture went “too far”?
In Wake of Recent Victories, Standing Rock Activists Carry On With Renewed Hope
The recent spate of favorable pipeline rulings is just the first step on the long road to victory, say activists.