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  Kolhatkar: Hoopla Over Harris VP Selection Obscures Many Young People of Color Who Are Winning Offices Nationally

  The debate over Biden’s running mate obscures a far more exciting development in American politics: that young people of color with clearly progressive values are running for office and winning
• Gurtov: Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos

  “Normal” isn’t good, as in the following warning in November 2019: "we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.”
• Wilkerson: America’s ‘Untouchables’: the Silent Power of the Caste System

  More than a century and a half before the American Revolution, a human hierarchy had evolved on the soil of the future United States. To comprehend the current upheavals one must understand the human pyramid encrypted into us all: the caste system.
• Smith: Harlem’s Pearl – James Baldwin

  Baldwin transformed a horrifying legacy of pain and rage into grace and light
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  Speri: Federal Agents at Protests Renew Calls to Dismantle Homeland Security

  After months of protests demanding the defunding of police, the abduction of protesters turns the focus to Homeland Security
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  Bohmer: Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!

  We should reach out and listen before we criticize some of their actions. These direct-action resisters have the potential or already are an important part of social movements and organizations that demand a better world
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  Agnew: Black Voters Are Ready. Are We?

  Bernie Sanders proves the Left needs more than a charismatic presidential candidate (though it would help and be a whole lot of fun). We need a more diverse base of people, namely more Black people.
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  Shakur: Detroiters lack privilege to distance socially

  Source: Deadline Detroit The “hood” is the center of many...
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  Daniels: Why Bernie Sander’s Campaign Mattered….And Faltered

  For all of his brilliance and accomplishments, Bernie’s flawed approach on race may render him incapable of being more than the titular head of the movement he birthed
• Taylor: The Black Plague

  Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?
• Ransby: Sanders Campaign Faces Questions About African-American Support

  On Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden swept the South and Midwest, winning Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas, propelled by a huge majority of African-American votes in several states
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  Reed Jr.: South Carolina, Neoliberalism’s Stranglehold, and the Mystique of the ‘Black Vote’

  By reducing all of black Americans' concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular black vote" in the first place, the elite political class continues to undermine our ability to organize the majoritarian social movement we need to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people in the United States
• Raskin: Négritude in The Last Black Man in San Francisco

  A look at the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Reeves: America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations

  The discovery of the last ship that brought Africans to the United States as slaves may offer a test case for reparations. Relatives of steamship owner Timothy Meaher, still live in Mobile. So do descendants of the people he enslaved
• Freeman-Woolpert: #BlackFridays walkouts turn rage into action and community

  After the #BlackFridays actions end this week, organizers will be encouraging people to connect with local movements in their communities, lift up local activists and take direction from people of color leading those initiatives
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  Daniels: The Unfulfilled Power of the Black Vote

  Black leaders must devise strategies to educate, motivate, inspire and energize millions of unregistered, improbable Black voters to burst into the arena to become the cornerstone of progressive coalitions
• Resistance: Celebrate Black August: The Power of Prisoner-Led Organizing

  The month of August bursts at the seams with histories of Black resistance--from the Haitian Revolution to the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Fugitive Slave Law Convention and the founding of the Underground Railroad...
• Horne: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

  The years between 1603 and 1714 were perhaps the most...
• Tompkins: Woke Hollywood? The Marketing of Black Panther

  Schools and neighborhoods will continue to deteriorate thanks to the very policies and promotions that make a film like Black Panther possible
• Lee: The Disturbing Messages in Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’?

  Black America deserves a more radical superhero to call its own
• Jackson: How Trump Trauma Is Resurrecting the Jim Crow Era

  I truly hope an outcome of the insanity is that people reclaim their humanity and sanity and social justice
• Rana: Against National Security Citizenship

  Any truly progressive social base must be built on a vision of solidarity that rejects false nationalisms and that connects arguments about U.S. power to those about political economy
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  Cohn: Racism “in His DNA”

  After Donald Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”...
• Zaitchik: Close encounters of the racist kind

  The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien
• Picciolini: How to Stop Hate Groups from Spreading

  Interview on a new book, "White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out"