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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In Mass “Fusion Movement“ of the South, Nation Looks to Raleigh As Tea-Party Combatant
The organizer of a “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C., says he wants it to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures nationwide.
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Our Legacy of Discrimination – And Why the Constitution Must Guarantee The Right to Vote
Many people are surprised to learn that the U.S. Constitution contains no affirmative right to vote. Yet voting seems to most people to be the most obvious, important vehicle they have.
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Taking the Dream Home: August 28 Rallies Ignite Across North Carolina
Sweeping across more than a dozen North Carolina cities on Wednesday, Taking the Dream Home marks the latest evolution of the Moral Monday protests that saw more than 1,000 arrests this summer in the Tar Heel state.
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Why Mass Marches Still Matter: 2013’s March on Washington
If it is possible to organize a demonstration of hundreds of thousands, it is possible to expand a movement’s influence.
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The 1963 March on Washington, Then and Now
A critical assessment of this event 50 years later reveals historical lessons relevant to contemporary movements for social and economic justice.
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92-Year-Old Woman Sues North Carolina Over New Wave Of Voter Suppression
Rosanell Eaton, who at 21 became one of the first African Americans in her county to vote, is one of several individuals and civil rights groups suing the state for what may be the most restrictive voting law in the nation.
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13 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests and the Moral Monday Movement Sweeping North Carolina
“Mountain Moral Monday” in Asheville on August 5 drew more than 10,000 people, as actions are traveling from Raleigh to multiple Congressional districts and counties in North Carolina.
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The August 24 March on Washington: Why We Need a New Civil Rights and Labor Movement
Even with the greatest employment crisis since the 1930s and an unemployment rate for blacks that remains double that of whites, there is no talk of legislation for a federal jobs program to be paid for by taxing the rich.
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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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Voting Rights Act, Section 4, Struck Down By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act Tuesday, altering the landmark civil rights law that designates federal oversight of voting rights in Southern states.
