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How We’re Failing Black Girls
Many African American women agree on the urgent need to provide mentoring, leadership, and community development programs for black girls. Unfortunately there are limited resources and limited will to …
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Updating Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew for the Twenty-First Century USA
We as a society openly sustain forms of bigotry, most notably against Muslims today, pursuant to an inequitable social order.
Jim Crow Returns: Interstate “Crosscheck” Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote
Investigative journalist Greg Palast details how new voter ID laws risk disenfranchising millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.
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Vonderrit Myers “Shot in Back”: Slave Patrol Officials Continue Disinformation Campaign
For this slave patroller, African boys running down a street automatically indicate suspicious and criminal behavior.
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Lennon Lacy: A New Generation’s “Strange Fruit”
While local authorities are suggesting suicide, the Black community is calling the Lacy case for what it is: a 2014 lynching.
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Black Freedom Fighters in Ferguson: Some of Us Are Queer
Not all of the freedom fighters are Black men with masculine swag and pedigree.
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Policing the Blacks: Ferguson and Past Histories
Like Mr. Scott, the protestors in Ferguson are asking for inclusion and the humanity of all to be respected.
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Detroit: The Dispersal of Urban Black America Begins
With water shut-offs and forced foreclosures in Detroit, the Great Black Urban Dispersal is set to accelerate.
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The Post-Michael Brown Agenda Provides Goals for the Movement to End Racist, Militarized Policing
Throughout the nation the issue of police brutality, including killings of unarmed people, is a common problem.
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Why We Need to Talk About Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West explores whether the soul of the United States can be salvaged by a rekindling the Black prophetic tradition.