racism
Teaching Tolerance hosts webinar with “New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander
September 25, 2014Released in 2010, "The New Jim Crow" outlines the use of the justice system in the United States as a form of racial control that especially impacts young African American males.
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“We have to care, We do care, We’re all in,” Inspiring report from Missouri labor
September 19, 2014"We need to clearly, openly discuss the reality of racism in America, we have a big vision of a better nation.""
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AFL-CIO president: Michael Brown is family (video)
September 16, 2014"Our brother killed our sister's son and we do not have to wait for the judgment of prosecutors or courts to tell us how terrible this is."
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Today in labor history: Racists bomb Birmingham church, kill 4 children
September 15, 2014The bombing took place two weeks after the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Poem: “Ferguson ev’rywhere now”
September 12, 2014We gotta get it all together In the garden To work that gospel plow 'cause it's ferguson ferguson ferguson Ev'rywhere ev'rywhere ev'rywhere now
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