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“David Duke Without the Baggage”: Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign Over Speech to Racist Group?
As Congress begins a new session today, one of its top Republicans has acknowledged he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
The Brutes in Blue: From Ferguson to Freedom
The institutionalization of racism, slavery, and policing predates the formation of the United States itself.
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Why Movements Should Care About Azealia Banks
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is quickly creating a national context whereby celebrities across industries are being forced to take sides.
The Movie “Exodus” Banned in Morocco, UAE and Egypt for “Historical Inaccuracies“
The Ridley Scott film, u201cExodus,u201d is being banned in countries across the Middle East.
Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.
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Black Student Union: “This Is Our Time to Speak” – Are the Education Reformers Listening?
Seattle Times runs front page profile of Garfield High School Black Student Union's leadership in the Black Lives Matter movement: “We are fighting for our lives.”
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Police Funerals and September 11
How clearly this recalls the tragedy of September 11th 2001, which similarly provided an opportunity for a giant offensive against everyone and anyone opposing the expansion of Pentagon-State Department-One …
Professor Jared Ball on Ferguson and the Media
Author Jared A. Ball talks about the construction of Black identity, colonialism and what is needed to stop the police killings.
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Why “The Interview” Is Not Worth Your Time
A film as racist as “The Interview” was bound to get some attention even before Sony was hacked.
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The Disunited States: A French Writer Navigates 1930s United States
Vladimir Pozner reveals the alienation, class antagonism, racism and sexism endemic to 1930s United States.