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White Supremacist Christianity Drives Trump’s Loyal Mob. We Must Scream It Down.
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel said true prophets don’t allow for indifference and “scream in the night” against oppression.
COVID Has Put a Whole Generation of Black-Owned Businesses at Risk
The economic impact of the pandemic could wipe out an entire generation of Black-owned businesses.
Detroit Will Use $200,000 in Taxpayer Money to Fund Claim Against BLM Group
The City Council voted to proceed with a conspiracy counterclaim against the anti-racist group Detroit Will Breathe.
Cornel West: The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style”
Students are decrying Harvard’s rejection of Cornel West’s bid for tenure as a blatant devaluation of Black scholarship.
Latinx Farmworkers Risking Their Lives During COVID Struggle to Access Vaccines
Roughly 2.5 million U.S. farmworkers labor under dangerous and exploitative circumstances
Child of Black Activists Bombed by Police: “My Activism Is My Religion”
Philadelphia police killed 11 members of Mike Africa Jr.’s household in their attack on MOVE in 1985.
White Journalists’ Use of the N-Word Is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom
Two white journalists have stirred debate over their use of the n-word. Historian Elizabeth Pryor offers her analysis.
Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI and NYPD Conspiracy Targeting Malcolm X
The FBI and NYPD face renewed calls to open their records into the assassination of Malcolm X.
Jail Won’t Solve White Supremacist Violence. Here’s How to Truly Confront It.
To fight white supremacist violence, we must abolish the systems that perpetuate it, like the prison-industrial complex.
White Supremacy Set the Stage for Texas’ Miserable Disaster Response
The problems illuminated now in Texas are interconnected with the decline of the white majority and the liberal order.