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“Stop Fearing Our Children”: Why Juvenile Incarceration Needs to Go
In this interview, Nell Bernstein, author of “Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison,” takes on the question: Why are we locking up children at all?
The Killing of Michael Brown: Missouri Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Teen Sparks Days of Protests
Protesters in St. Louis, Missouri, are demanding justice in a police shooting that killed an unarmed African-American teen.
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Blacked Out: “You Must Consider What Happens to a Life Which Finds No Mirror”
The narrative of the US remains a redacted myth, names and lives blacked out.
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Michael Brown and Anti-Black Violence
Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, parents of Michael Brown, a teenager killed by a police officer, listen as an attorney speaks during a news conference concerning the death …
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Ebola, Secret Serums and Me
Ebola is no laughing matter. Except, of course, for Monsanto.
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James Baldwin at 90: “‘I can’t believe what you say,’ the song goes, ‘because I see what you do'”
Today, racism is thinly masked, and many refuse to see it.
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Arab Americans and American Muslims Are at Risk
When the majority of GOP presidential candidates in 2012 stated that they would require special loyalty oaths from any Muslim who sought to serve in government, damage was done.
Jobless Kabul and the Works of War
Relentlessly, the fighting continues.
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Palestinian-American Teen Brutalized by Israeli Police Testifies on Capitol Hill
Last week, Tariq Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian-American teen beaten by Israeli police, and his mother testified at a Congressional briefing.
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“Mad Men” and the Triumph of the Insubstantial
The TV show “Mad Men” captures a moment when we began, slowly, to shift from substance to image, anticipating a laptop capitalism of the 21st century.