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Racism
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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Land of the Brave
From Mizzou to Yale: The Resurgence of Black Student Protest
Protests from Yale to Mizzou are part of a long tradition of Black students struggling against racism and other injustices.
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The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future
The war on youth is being waged against and by young people. They are both subjects and objects in a global cycle of violence.