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Street: Divide and Rule: Notes From the Hidden Abode in Global Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa Liberals and progressives in the United States...
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Davis: Black Liberation, History and the Contemporary Vision
Interview on Black Lives Matter, the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and her latest book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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Joyce: The Big Lesson From Flint: Resistance Is NOT Futile
Few topics in recent memory have generated as much attention...
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Jones: Walking a Migrant Trail
How can Christians – or people of any faith, or no faith, for that matter – reconcile themselves to the militarization and victimization taking place in our borderlands, in our names?
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Kelley: Yes, I Said “National Liberation”
As they reach out to Palestine, and Palestine reaches back to Ferguson, the potential for a new basis for solidarity is being born — one rooted in revolution
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Gordon: Turning American Communities Into War Zones, Death By Death
When It Comes to People of Color, the Police Make San Francisco “Baghdad by the Bay”
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Alberts: Christian Churches: the “Master Race” and “American Exceptionalism”
A crucial challenge of American Christians is to move beyond their mission of seeking to transform the world in the likeness of Jesus Christ, and, instead, embrace the likeness they share with every other human being
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Cohn: Lessons From the O.J. Simpson Case for the Presidential Race and the Nation’s Racial Divide
Twenty years after the so-called “trial of the century,” FX...
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Anderson: Turkey wages war on its Kurdish population
Turkey is conducting the greatest massacre and displacement of Kurds since the 1990s
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Williams: An Open Letter to Rep. John Lewis
It’s not about Bernie Sanders. John Lewis’s statement denigrates the unknown heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
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Lewis: Stacey Dash Wins Headlines While Dr. Evelyn Higginbotham Wins The Debate
Actress Stacey Dash recently incited headlines by saying that Black History Month was no longer necessary
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Marans: Eric Garner’s Daughter Hails Bernie Sanders’ Activism In Powerful New Campaign Ad
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ latest ad stars civil rights activist Erica Garner, whose father was put in a police chokehold in 2014 and died
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Alexander: Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote
Hopefully, one day, we’ll muster the courage to join together in a revolutionary movement with people of all colors who believe that basic human rights and economic, racial, and gender justice are not unreasonable, pie-in-the-sky goals
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Collins: Black Homebuyers Beware
Warren Buffet owns the company that makes the most mobile home loans to Black borrowers in the country. And he’s stripping them of their hard-earned money
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Black Lives Matter” is a cry from the heart of the frustrated black population. A white population in despair takes refuge in the toxic language of racism
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Anderson: The fear of ‘not enough to go round’
Global inequality lies at the root of our anxiety over migrants
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Johansen: Europe’s colonial amnesia and its repercussions for the migrant and refugee crisis
The daily updates I receive from volunteers working in Calais...
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Barber: The Strange Career of James Crow, Esquire
After the Supreme Court razed the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Jim Crow came skulking back to the South
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Mason: Europe’s refugee story has hardly begun
With a million new refugees expected in Europe this year, Greece faces a diplomatic onslaught and an existential crisis
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Cole: Obama Condems hatred of Muslim-Americans, Affirms their Importance to Nation
President Obama spoke Wednesday at a Baltimore mosque in an...
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Girard: Black Lives Shattered: How the Clintons Built Their Legacy on White Supremacy
Even over 200 years later, Hillary Clinton seems to have had the same colonialist attitude toward Haiti as her predecessors
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This is a situation that calls for policies that embody compassion, respect, protection, and welcome—not fear, dehumanization, exclusion, or revulsion
ZMag Culture/Race
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Piascik: The Northern Student Movement
Tens of thousands of young Americans were inspired by the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina and spread throughout the South. NSM Students at Yale University were no exception and some of them got together in the Fall of 1961 to form the NSM.
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Isaacs: Hurricane Sandy Is Still Drowning The Poor
It is a few months short of three years since Hurricane Sandy barreled down on NYC. The flooded subways have new barriers. The submerged hospital generators are back in order. The boardwalks along the shore are up and trod by beachgoers once again. But what of the thousands of poor renters, most on public assistance, who lost their homes that day? I don’t know all their stories. I only know one intimately, and it is not a happy story.
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Greenberg: Race Curriculum Controversy
In 2001, I was hired to help open the Center School, a small school in Seattle Public Schools, and I began teaching the Race Unit in 2002. Drawing in part from a district-wide training on racism called Courageous Conversations, the Race Unit established safe norms for racial dialogue
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Isaacs: From Baltimore to Palestine
The increasingly militarized attacks on rebellious neighborhoods in the U.S. seem more and more like armed forces brought to bear on Palestinians in the Middle East.
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Authors Pascale and Cook write in "U.S. Language Policy": "According to the U.S Census, in three decades, no single racial or ethnic group will comprise the majority of the U.S. population. In many parts of the U.S. this reality has already arrived.... "The United States prides itself on being 'a nation of immigrants,' yet it has cultivated a multicultural, monolingual society."
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Rothstein: From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation
In 1925, 18 Baltimore neighborhood associations came together to form the “Allied Civic and Protective Association” for the purpose of urging both new and existing property owners to sign restrictive covenants, which committed owners never to sell to an African American
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Throughout its coverage of the dramas sparked by the police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City—and by the Grand Jury non-indictments of their killers—U.S. corporate media has framed the racial issue at stake as about how police carry out their tasks, how they police.
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Zeese: Ferguson Exposes the Reality of Militarized, Racist Policing
The killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri police...
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Jenkins: Undercover in White America: Black Rage is Long Overdue
The rage of the citizens in Ferguson, Missouri is the product of a life full of experiences that have tried to beat them down; that have attempted to “keep them in their place. Like most Black Americans, their collective rage is conscious, justified, and long overdue.
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Baraka: Beyond Donald Sterling
What reveals the superficiality of the outrage about racism in sports is the dissociation between this outrage against black people and the ongoing assault in sports on indigenous people.
Culture/Race Audio
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Morello: Tom Morello Protest Song “Marching on Ferguson”
"100% of the profits from 'Marching On Ferguson' will support defending the protestors in the Ferguson area who have faced attacks, wrongful arrest, and violence from the police"
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Achcar: Egypt’s Brotherhood, ready for the political arena?
In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks...
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Trigona: Argentina’s indigenous continue to struggle as country marks bi-centennial
Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the...
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Scahill: Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for...
Culture/Race Video
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Piascik: The Northern Student Movement
Tens of thousands of young Americans were inspired by the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina and spread throughout the South. NSM Students at Yale University were no exception and some of them got together in the Fall of 1961 to form the NSM.
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Isaacs: Hurricane Sandy Is Still Drowning The Poor
It is a few months short of three years since Hurricane Sandy barreled down on NYC. The flooded subways have new barriers. The submerged hospital generators are back in order. The boardwalks along the shore are up and trod by beachgoers once again. But what of the thousands of poor renters, most on public assistance, who lost their homes that day? I don’t know all their stories. I only know one intimately, and it is not a happy story.
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Greenberg: Race Curriculum Controversy
In 2001, I was hired to help open the Center School, a small school in Seattle Public Schools, and I began teaching the Race Unit in 2002. Drawing in part from a district-wide training on racism called Courageous Conversations, the Race Unit established safe norms for racial dialogue
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Isaacs: From Baltimore to Palestine
The increasingly militarized attacks on rebellious neighborhoods in the U.S. seem more and more like armed forces brought to bear on Palestinians in the Middle East.
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Authors Pascale and Cook write in "U.S. Language Policy": "According to the U.S Census, in three decades, no single racial or ethnic group will comprise the majority of the U.S. population. In many parts of the U.S. this reality has already arrived.... "The United States prides itself on being 'a nation of immigrants,' yet it has cultivated a multicultural, monolingual society."
Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Kearns: What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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Peterson: Gangsta Rap-A Social Perspective
Gangsta Rap- A Social Perspective Over a span of three...
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Ortiz: Distinguished Boricuas II
This is the second installment of Distinguished Boricuas. In these...
Culture/Race Books
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: African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
About the Book As African societies come to live more...
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: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked...