racism
Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre survivors tell of past destruction, continuing pain
May 30, 2021A hundred years later our world is quite different, but police murders and the attempted Jan. 6 coup show racism is still the big killer in the U.S.
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Historian says right-wing attacks on Critical Race Theory prove its value
May 26, 2021Murray State University historian Brian Clardy says the right-wing wig-out over Critical Race Theory reminds him of the castor oil he took as a kid. “It tasted awful but you knew it was good for you.”
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Coalition backs Tamir Rice’s mother in pushing Justice Dept. to re-open case
May 17, 2021Trump's DOJ shuttered the investigation one month before he left office. Tamir’s Campaign for Justice is pressuring the Biden administration to take the unprecedented step of reopening a closed case.
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California’s new A.G. announces ‘Racial Justice Bureau’ to combat hate surge
May 14, 2021State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California is "in a full-on state of crisis, a full-on state of emergency when it comes to hate violence against the Asian Pacific Islander community."
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Survivors of racist police killings and 170 groups ask for UN probe
May 12, 2021“It needs to be said that the police are still killing us,” a May 7th statement from the Communist Party's African-American Equality Commission concluded.
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