The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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What Civil Rights History Can Teach Kavanaugh’s Critics
A week after the justice’s controversial swearing-in, the African-American activists I study offer a lesson to those who are in despair: Failure is part of the process.
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The Racist History of the 'Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors
61 years before teens in Parkland, Fla., survived a mass shooting only to be labeled “crisis actors,” nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.
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Lynching In America: New Report Documents Nearly 4,000 Killings In Jim Crow South
Researchers at the Alabama-based Equal Jusitice Initiative reviewed historical archives, court records and African-American newspapers, and interviewed historians, lynching survivors and victims' descendants to calculate the figures.
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The Year in Inequality: Racial Disparity Can No Longer Be Ignored
There’s no way policymakers can adequately address inequality in the United States overall without recognizing the effects of the racial wealth gap.
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Jim Crow Returns: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened By Electoral Purge
This in-depth investigation reveals how election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, launched a program that threatens a massive purge of millions of voters from the rolls.
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North Carolina Protesters Call to End the Worst Voting Law Since Jim Crow
Activists with the Moral Monday movement rallied outside a packed courthouse in Winston-Salem to demand voting rights for all.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
The American novelist Theodore Dreiser recognized that “only the mass can get America out of the mess,” something that was true in 1941 and arguably even truer today in 2013.
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Too Fat to Vote: Supreme Court Weighs Gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In November, I joined African-American voters on “Souls to the Polls” day. Their wait for a ballot: four hours. Then I went up the road to an all-white polling station. Wait: zero minutes. Is it really time to gut the Voting Rights Act?
