African Americans
Confederate flags, monuments, going down in wake of massacre
June 26, 2015Politicians across the South are distancing themselves from the Confederate battle flag, but tributes to slaveocracy and its racist legacy persist around the country.
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Rachel Dolezal and the individual right to ethnic self-determination
June 22, 2015The propertied classes promoted the racist concept of white superiority to rationalize enslavement of people kidnapped from Africa, whose labor was the basis for the American economy.
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Today in history: Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph born 75 years ago
June 22, 2015"My doctors told me I would never walk again, my mother told me I would; I believed my mother."
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Time to unite against racist terror
June 19, 2015"In the spring of '69, Daily World editors asked me to travel down to Charleston, S.C. to cover a strike by Hospital workers, Local 1199."
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To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!
June 19, 2015Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
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