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West: Justice and Accountability are Necessary to End Tension over Killings by Police
Interview on the killing of the three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality
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Emanuele: Killer Cops, Deranged Veterans and Pokémon Go: Welcome to America!
For the first time in history, large segments of White Americans are seeing what Black Americans have been experiencing for centuries
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Kimberley: Why We Need Black Anger
The system is designed to potentially treat every black person the way it treated Sterling and Castille
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Stamper: Black Ohio Cop to Prejudiced White Officers: Take the Uniform Off and Put on KKK Hoodie
A Facebook Live video has gone viral of a black female police officer speaking out against police violence
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Street: Dirty Obama Secrets: From Warsaw to Dallas and Baton Rouge
A dirty little secret about candidate Obama was that he was a stealth agent of anti-Black U.S. societal racism. He brilliantly absolved the nation of its racist sins, past and present
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Daniels: This Generation’s Black Power Conference
State of the Black World Conference IV (SOBWC IV), November 16-20 in Newark, New Jersey
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Baroud: Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity as a Welcome Pathology
There is an unmistakable sense of being permanently exiled that is shared by many Palestinians, regardless of their political backgrounds
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Jensen: Can the United States transcend white supremacy?
Acquiring the land base of the United States required the most extensive genocide in recorded human history
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Horne: Police Killings Won’t Stop Until U.S. Comes to Grips with its Racist Foundations
Interview on the roots of police killing people of color in the American history of slavery, the elite policy that produces poverty and racism, and the laws that police officers are expected to enforce in order to maintain superexploitation and economic inequality
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Alexander: Following Horrific Violence, Something More is Required of Us
Our entire system of government is designed to protect and serve the interests of the most powerful, while punishing, controlling and exploiting the least advantaged
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Alang: The massive toll of police brutality
The fatal shootings — like in Louisiana and Minnesota — destroy minority communities, both physically and mentally
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Lives of innocent people caught up in these brutal wars do not matter provided the safety and property of the people outside, and of the people sent in to quell disorder, are rigorously protected
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King: The “Free State of Jones” in Trump’s America: Freedom Beyond White Imagination
“[H]istory is literally present in all that we do. It...
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Slaughter-Johnson: Mamie Till and Tarsha Jackson: ‘Mothers at the Gate’
Jackson is one of a growing number of family members nationwide, mostly mothers, who have taken up the mantle to advocate for juvenile justice reform
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Lazare: Following Brexit Vote, Hate Attacks Sweep the U.K.
A mosque, a Polish center and refugees have reportedly been targeted
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Lopez: An Emancipation Proclamation for the Digital Age
The problematic relationship of Black people and the Internet persists
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Street: Miranda, Obama, and Hamilton: an Orwellian Ménage à Trois for the Neoliberal Age
Miranda’s Hamilton is in this sense a perfect cultural wrap up to the ugly neoliberal Obama years. It is a brilliant ahistorical monument to Orwellian, fake-progressive bourgeois identity politics
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Cook: Israel’s fear of the ‘desert’ Jews in its midst
With the Arab Jews on the Palestinians’ side, the conflict with Israel might be ended at the ballot box
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Wallerstein: Ethnicity: Impassioned, Impermanent, Important
Ethnicity refers to one of the basic realities of the...
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Cole: The Palmer Raids: When Trump’s Grandfather and Wives could have been Profiled
Trumpism is about repealing the 14th Amendment; maybe it is about repealing the Constitution in favor of whatever Trump thinks the law should be on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays
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Dunbar-ortiz: Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide
This paper, written under the title, “U.S. Settler-Colonialism and Genocide...
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West: Why the US Empire Is More Ripe for Right-Wing Revolution Than from the Left
Interview on Bernie Sanders’ neopopulism and Donald Trump’s neofascism
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Olson: Senator Reverses Position, Now Welcomes Refugees with Only a Few Conditions
"Those model refugees who accumulate sufficient points will be eligible for citizenship. Those who choose not to will be deported. That's the American Way!"
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Colson: Don’t turn homophobia into Islamophobia
A report on the outpouring of solidarity for the victims of a horrific mass shooting--and the need to challenge the tide of racist scapegoating of Muslims
ZMag Culture/Race
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Barber: Why It’s Possible to Reject the Klan and Still Support Racism
We can neither forgive nor ignore the way 400 years of white supremacy have been naively reduced to whether a candidate will disavow the support of a hate group leader. Racism lives on in policies that perpetuate racial disparities, with or without the KKK.
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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...
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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Barber: Why It’s Possible to Reject the Klan and Still Support Racism
We can neither forgive nor ignore the way 400 years of white supremacy have been naively reduced to whether a candidate will disavow the support of a hate group leader. Racism lives on in policies that perpetuate racial disparities, with or without the KKK.
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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
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...