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Whole Foods workers sue: Amazon fired us for supporting Black Lives Matter

July 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

14 workers are suing after being fired or driven off the job for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks and other apparel.

Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history

July 23, 2020 By Al Neal

For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.

Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy

July 23, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.

People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end

July 22, 2020 By Center for Public Integrity

Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...

Black Women’s Lives Matter

July 21, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

When Black women are killed, the ensuing protests—if they even occur—are tiny compared to when Black men are killed.