By Chris Hedges – Steve Bannon’s fascist yearnings are the cornerstone of Trump’s immigration policy.
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By Rebekah Barber – The courts have found that voter ID laws intentionally discriminate against voters of color. Now newly published research offers details about the laws’ politically suppressive effects.
By Barbara Ransbury – Revolution! The word means different things to different people. It has been made seductive by the work of artists like Lin-Manuel Miranda, in his groundbreaking musical, Hamilton…
He recognizes the need for a big-picture approach to political challenges that includes a “Right to Vote Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution.
By Chris Hedges – At this frightening moment in American history—with a racist in the White House and amid rising levels of racial hatred—there is no more important writer than Baldwin.
By: Daniel Peterson – The economic difference between the African-American communities is among the most crucial factors in the rise of Black Lives Matter, led by a new generation of college students and graduates.
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. – I’m really reaching my threshold with this president. On Tuesday he visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and made a tone-deaf, rambling speech. While we’ve become used to his stream of consciousness attempts at public speaking, Trump’s ability to just flat out act as if he’s not the perpetrator of the most xenophobic administrations this country has ever known is mind-boggling. I will break down the speech so that you don’t have to waste your time watching it.
When he addressed the Southern Christian Leadership Council in 1967, in his speech, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted “ Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites…
Friday, March 3, 2017 – Students of African descent and their friends at Havard and Universities in the Boston area will assemble to demand reparations to pay black student debt.
In the spirit of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action of 2001, which declared the Atlantic Slave Trade and chattel slavery as crimes against humanity, to directly confront racism, we urge the Women’s March 8 mobilization to embrace the growing national and global movement for reparatory justice.
By: Daniel Peterson – The inequity of opportunity attacks Black America perhaps even more seriously now, given its extremes than the economic reality which encouraged Dr. King to shift the focus of his movement from civil rights to economic justice, as omitted in his last, tragically sterilized effort to organize a “Poor People’s Campaign.”
By Barbara Krauthamer – In the 19th century, slaveholders advertised widely for runaway slaves and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. African-American communities offered sanctuary space to the runaways.
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