racism
Congressional Black Caucus tackles outsized coronavirus impact on African Americans
April 9, 2020“Blacks are nickeled and dimed” for both health services and access to other aid, says Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
Read moreGerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
Read more‘Something is Going On’: A white worker wakes up to racist police violence
March 6, 2020This poem was part of the program at the New York CPUSA African-American History Celebration.
Read moreAfter a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime
March 3, 2020At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.
Read moreLAPD’s secretive gang database and the intimidation of working-class communities
February 13, 2020Targeting African-American and Latino youth in gang database logs is a modern form of long-established policies used by the police to target people of color.
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