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We’re Young, Passionate and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible
This movement is showing what wholeness looks like and demanding a whole and uncompromised justice.
Tens of Thousands Join North Carolina Moral March to Protest GOP Takeover, Racism and Islamophobia
Tens of thousands gathered Saturday in Raleigh for what organizers are calling one of the largest civil rights rallies in the South since the Selma to Montgomery march in …
Some Thoughts on Mercy: An Essay on Race and Redemption
A journey into the world of racial hurt, degradation and separateness holds out the fragile possibility of redemption.
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The Complexities of Black Community Control of Police
Does the existence of the board make it easier or more difficult to organize for fundamental change?
As Study Finds 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South, Will US Address Legacy of Racial Terrorism?
A new report has uncovered shocking details about the history of lynchings in the US and their legacy today.
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Bill Moyers | The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality’s Never Far Away
Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the US.
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Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
In a word, the name for institutional mass incarceration, murder and the militarization of police forces is - racism.
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Friends Like These
GOP presidential hopefuls are cozying up to anti-immigrant extremists and right-wing billionaires.
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Holder’s Final Betraying Kiss to the People of Ferguson: The Wholesale Abandonment of Decency
All week the DOJ has been floating trial balloons throughout the media that former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not be brought up on any charges for his …
How Subjected Bodies Are Connecting the Struggle Against Collaborating States
Like African-Americans, Palestinians have been the targets of systematic dehumanization, which serves to justify the violence leveled against them by their respective oppressors.