Truthout
Racism
Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported …
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Angela Davis | Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism
The legacy of structural racism is part of Angela Davis' latest book, The Meaning of Freedom. Here's an excerpt.
“Love Has No Color”: Georgia High School Students Set to Hold First Integrated Prom
A group of Georgia high school students are making history by challenging the segregation of their high school prom.
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Poverty: The Racist Reality Behind Budget Rhetoric
Racial stereotypes and the ‘politics of respectability’ have politicized and deeply undermined the very concept of society's collective responsibility to care for the less fortunate.
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Lil Wayne’s Lyrical Fascism
Lil Wayne fashioned lyrics that sound as if they were written by the racists who killed Emmitt Till.
A Forest of Poisonous Trees: The US Criminal (In)Justice System
The US criminal justice system has transformed into a tool of the national security state.
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Idle No More, The Black Experience, and Why It is that What We Say About Others Reveals So Much About Ourselves
New equality movement is challenging the flow of power when it comes to human rights.
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Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
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The Failure of Multiculturalism and the Necessity of Democracy
Social practices that best deliver multiculturalism are those that at the same time may be regarded as enactments of democratic enfranchisement, the very thing that should inform the heart …
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Remanding Migrants “To the End of the Line“
Roberto C. Rodriguez: Our mindset about immigration needs to change radically before this country will see justice in immigration policy.