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Racism
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Impending Chicago Teachers’ Strike Adds Power to Nationwide Movements Against Inequality and Racism
As Chicago protests continue, the teachers union has an opportunity to make powerful demands for racial and economic justice.
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To the Donald Trump-Led GOP: We Will Fight You and We Will Win
We must combat racism in politics and in our communities, and build a multiracial movement against white supremacy.
In Panama, the Price of a Great Engineering Feat Is Largely Forgotten
Remembering the past is difficult in a country that wants to detach its association from prejudiced policies.
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Princeton Students Are Right: Woodrow Wilson Was Way Worse Than You Think
President Wilson enshrined racism, gutted discourse on public control of the economy and shredded US civil rights and liberties.
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A Black Princeton Graduate’s Response to Marginalization at the University
What is missing at many of America's colleges and universities is an awareness that racism is a very real problem.
Henry A. Giroux | Fascism in Donald Trump’s United States
Let's call it what it is: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's political ideology is unapologetically fascist.
The Long Assault on Voting Rights and Fear of a Changing South
Author Ari Berman describes the ways that the VRA was a success and also the opposition to it that began as soon as law was enacted.
Racism and Mass Incarceration in the US Heartland: Historical Roots of the New Jim Crow
Racialized police violence in Chicago is not an aberration; it reflects a long history of discriminatory policing in the Midwest.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: “The Violence Is Not New, It’s the Cameras That Are New”
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses white supremacy and being Black in the US.
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