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Dead at 28, Sandra Bland’s Texas dream turned nightmare

July 22, 2015 By Kelly Sinclair

According to federal statistics, an African-American driver is 31 percent more likely to be pulled over for a traffic citation.

Today in labor history: black farmer union leader murdered by sheriff’s posse

July 15, 2015 By Special to People’s World

He was murdered by a heavily armed white mob organized by the sheriff.

Charleston, the Republican right, and the lessons of Martin Luther King

July 8, 2015 By Sam Webb

Few people are claiming that there was anything random or mysterious about the brutal murder of nine innocent African American people in Charleston.

Latino organizations demand NBC cut ties with Trump

June 29, 2015

Actions over GOP candidate Donald Trump's repugnant comments regarding Mexican immigrants and, by extension, Mexican-Americans.

Confederate flag, like the swastika, has no place in our future

June 29, 2015 By Victor Grossman

What is behind "Stars and Bars," Calhoun Streets and Robert E. Lee statues-lynchings and mass incarceration, police bullying and murder of African Americans.