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Racism
Newspaper Comment Sections Become Cordoned-Off Hate Crime Scenes
The unexpected new locations for hate crime scenes in the 21st century appear to be the comments sections of the nation's leading newspapers, where calls to violence have become …
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Lyndon Johnson on Civil Rights – Where Are We Now?
Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.
Panel Discusses the School-to-Prison Pipeline
To end the violence there must be radical reform of the school and prison moderated by Marc Steiner.
Fifty Years After Freedom Summer, US Faces Greatest Curbs on Voting Rights Since Reconstruction
In a week marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Mississippi was in the news when African-American voters crossed party lines to help Republican Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly defeat …
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Racist Dixiecrats
Bob Moses describes how in 1874 the white racist Democratic Party violently overthrew the Governor of Mississippi (who had been elected by a mostly black Republican Party), and how …
A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana and the New Jim Crow
California's marijuana industry is directly tied to the racial injustices of the system of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander, a young farmer and two prominent activists talk about how and …
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The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker’s “Toxic Strain of Racial Politics“
Walker pushed ALEC-inspired tough-on-crime measures that experts say contributed to Wisconsin having the country's highest rate of African-American men behind bars.
NYC’s $40 Million Central Park Five Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse
The City of New York has reportedly agreed to pay $40 million to five men wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in Central Park 25 years ago.
The Respectable Face of Terror
Robert Moses says America from 1875 down to the civil rights movement, was slavery by another name.
Real, Real Comrades: What 43+ Years of Prison Mean to Eddie Conway and Paul Coates
Marshall Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about how they met in Baltimore's Black Panther Party and maintained solidarity and friendship for 43 years after Conway was framed, convicted …