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Protests Erupt Over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa and Charlotte
Democracy Now! hosts a roundtable on police killings of Black men.
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A Grandfather’s Grief for the LAPD’s 12th Shooting Victim of 2016
After 31 years in prison, Al Sasser emerged a changed man, touching many lives — then the police killed his grandson.
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The Dangers of Medicalizing Racism
Treating racism like an addiction or mental illness undermines efforts to deal with its structural underpinnings.
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“We’re Freedom Fighters”: The Story of the Nationwide Prison Labor Strike
Are people incarcerated for their labor or to erase them from the landscapes being gentrified for the privileged?
UN Summit Won’t Resolve Refugee Resettlement Impasse
The UN's richer member states are missing a crucial opportunity to tackle xenophobia and racism by actually resettling refugees within their own borders.
William Rivers Pitt | March of the Deplorables
Trump has exposed a deep vein of true ugliness in this country.
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Decolonize “Hispanic Heritage Month” or Get Rid of It
Engage our communities regularly not just during election cycles.
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The Deplorables
How the Alt-Right Is Attempting to Hide Its White Supremacist Ties
Behind its middle-class intellectual facade the alt-right has the same fascist lineage as the Klan and the neo-Nazis.
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In Milwaukee, a History of Racist Violence Fuels Mistrust of the Police Department
A recent shooting recalls the decades of abuse inflicted on the city's African-American community by police.