Harvard Law Today — On September 5, at the opening of its Bicentennial observance, Harvard Law School unveiled a memorial to the enslaved people whose labor helped make possible the…
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By Mark Karlin — With a sweeping and detailed account of how the US rose out of World War II to become the reigning empire, Alfred W. McCoy connects dots that reveal how the role of covert action and torture enhanced its powers. However, McCoy ponders that these may be the last days of US global hegemony. Truthout asked McCoy to talk more about these issues.
Topics — Like It Is: The Life and Legacy of Gil Noble, Crisis in the Congo and the Assault on the Daughter of Patrice Lumumba, The Quest for Democracy and Development in Africa. Guests — Chris Noble, Organizer, Tribute to Gil Noble, New York, NY, Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson, Friends of the Congo, New York, NY, Sidique Wai, President and National Spokesperson, United African Congress
By Paul Street — Look at the following series of tweets from the president of the United States, reflecting Thursday on the tearing down of Confederate statues in the U.S. South: Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson—who’s next, Washington, Jefferson?…
White people take their freedom for granted. By Kristin Hull, AlterNet — My white privilege shows up on a daily basis, in big and small and even almost imperceptible ways….
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic — IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind…
By Herbert Dyer, Jr. — The viral video of a white, middle-class University of Utah Hospital Head Nurse, one Alex Wubbels, being manhandled and thrown into the back of a police car…
White nationalists parade through the U. of Virginia campus on the eve of the “Unite the Right” rally that left three people dead. Are colleges unconsciously endorsing the white victimhood…
Participants in white supremacist violence are overwhelmingly young and predominantly male. By Daniel Keating, Salon — The white supremacist uprising in Charlottesville shocked the nation, which watched with horror the angry, racist…
But opposition decreases toward school vouchers By Arianna Prothero, Education Week — President Donald Trump’s vocal support for charter schools and private-school vouchers has had some school choice supporters wringing…
The best way to honor his memory this Labor Day and every day is to continue the struggle for human dignity. By Peter Dreier, AlterNet — Most Americans today know…
At a once-segregated base in heart of the Confederacy, four of America’s first black Marines were finally recognized with one of our highest civilian honors. By James LaPorta — CAMP…
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