racism
Gerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
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‘Something is Going On’: A white worker wakes up to racist police violence
March 6, 2020This poem was part of the program at the New York CPUSA African-American History Celebration.
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After a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime
March 3, 2020At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.
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LAPD’s secretive gang database and the intimidation of working-class communities
February 13, 2020Targeting African-American and Latino youth in gang database logs is a modern form of long-established policies used by the police to target people of color.
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Trump sinks to racist panic as China mobilizes against disease
February 7, 2020If we sink to racist xenophobia in the face of winnable battles against disease, we do not deserve to call ourselves the working class.
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