racism
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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San Jose churches and synagogues get set to fight racist mass incarceration
September 23, 2019The workshop was led by Sophia Jackson, a candidate for ordination as a minister who knows the criminal "justice" system inside out—literally. She was incarcerated for eight years.
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Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix white privilege documentary misses the mark
September 19, 2019What happens when a wildly successful rich white woman comedian realizes she’s had access to immeasurable opportunities throughout her life? She makes a documentary centering herself.
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South Africa bans old racist flag as hate speech
August 22, 2019A landmark Aug. 21 ruling by South Africa’s Equality Court has criminalized gratuitous displays of the national flag of the apartheid era.
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1619 anniversary: Black freedom struggle made U.S. more democratic for all
August 21, 2019Blacks suffered under slavery for 250 years, and brutal racial apartheid for a century more. We have been legally free for just 50.
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