politics
Former Detroit Daily World reporter on the legacy of Rep. John Conyers
October 28, 2019There seemed to be no such thing as a progressive cause that didn't have his name on it: from Medicare for All to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.
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Key impeachment panel chair Cummings dies at 68; Probe goes on
October 17, 2019“The Congressional Black Caucus will honor his legacy by fearlessly seeking the truth and ensuring every person in this country has the opportunity to achieve the American dream.”
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Thirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being “remembered”
October 15, 2019Why does the right wing all around the world continue to beat up on the long-gone German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
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Keep me in your heart: Race and class politics in the Trump era
October 15, 2019Many white people have constructed a working-class identity resting primarily on their whiteness. Instead of a democratic alliance of all people in the face of corporate dominance, many seem to want control over the advantages of...
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Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history
October 11, 2019A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”
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