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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Job Sprawl Hurts Minorities and Poor in Suburbia
By Haya El-Nasser Aida “Didi” Nuñez used to have a car and a job she could drive to. Then she lost her job at a community center when funding dried up. And then she had an accident and lost her … Continue reading
Americans are utterly powerless
By Robert Reich A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule and his pay. “They just don’t care,” he said. A traveler I … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, inequality, politics, Robert Reich, United States
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#BlackLivesMatter Co-Founders On Baltimore Uprisings: ‘We Stand In Solidarity’
By Lilly Workneh Following Monday’s funeral of Freddie Gray — a 25-year-old man who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury during an arrest in Baltimore — protests broke out and swept across the streets of the Maryland city. Demonstrators … Continue reading
Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality
By Stacia L. Brown West Baltimore was quiet yesterday morning, as the family of Freddie Gray prepared to lay him to rest. But I still parked my car several blocks south of New Shiloh Baptist Church, where his funeral was … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray, police abuse, protests
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Freddie Gray’s Death Reveals a Dark History of ‘Nickel Rides’ and Police Van Torture
By John Vibes This week, protests and riots erupted in Baltimore, in response to the police murder of an innocent 27-year-old man named Freddie Gray. According to police, Gray was first stopped and arrested by officers at 8:39am on April … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, cowboy ride, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, Nickel Rides, police, police abuse, rough ride
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White Reservation: The Justification of Breath and Those Who Take It Away
By T. Better Baldwin April 20, 2015 was just another manic Monday for Lady Justice. Until there is proper distinction between visual impairment and the opaqueness of a blindfold, her fair beauty will only be in the eye of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, black, Black Lives Matter, Freddie Gray, justice, race
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5 Examples of Our Government Treating BlackLivesMatter Movement Like a Terrorist Group
By Adam Johnson We learned in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement that the government’s use of its anti-terror apparatus at a local and federal level was both routine and pervasive. Thus far, the means with which similar … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, domestic surveillance, FBI, NYPD, race, racism, social activism, United States
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‘All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie Gray’
By Askia Muhammad, Nisa Islam Muhammad, Charles Robinson and Shawn Massie From Staten Island, to Ferguson, to Cleveland, to North Charleston, S.C., now to the city by the Bay, death after death of unarmed Black men by police has stunned … Continue reading
Nonviolence as Compliance
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, police abuse, protest, race
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The Powerful Scene On The Streets Of Baltimore Monday Night That No One Is Talking About
By Judd Legum Violent rioting erupted on the streets of Baltimore on Monday, the day that a 25-year-old man who was killed while in police custody, Freddie Gray, was laid to rest. Cars were burned, more than a dozen police … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Freddie Gray murder, police abuse, protest, social activism
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