racism
“Seven Seconds”: Netflix series explores how the system fails Black Americans
March 21, 2018The problem of racism, and the failure of the justice system to protect Black lives in the United States, goes beyond instances of police brutality and cop acquittals.
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“Facing the Rising Sun”: Book illuminates history of Afro-Asian solidarity
March 16, 2018Historian Gerald Horne shows how U.S. expansionist policy boomeranged and drove Negroes, Japanese, and Filipinos together, laying the foundation for an Afro-Asian alliance against white supremacy.
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Armed teachers: A threat to Black children everywhere
March 14, 2018In the so-called mission for safety, it would appear, not surprisingly, the safety of Black children is being overlooked.
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Structural racism remains 50 years after Kerner Commission report
March 7, 2018A new report compares the state of black workers and their families in 1968 with the economic circumstances African Americans face today.
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Notes on the capitalist origins of racial oppression in the United States
March 5, 2018When white people shed exculpatory myths and acknowledge the truth about slavery, they’ve arrived at what descendants of enslaved people know about only too well.
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