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Can America Heal After Ferguson? We Asked Desmond Tutu and His Daughter
By Fania Davis & Sarah van Gelder Can we recover from the legacy of slavery, lynching, land theft, disenfranchisement, redlining, job discrimination, and mass imprisonment? We turned to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter the Rev. Mpho Tutu for wisdom on … Continue reading
What We Don’t Mention About Unemployment
Associated Press In this year’s State of the Union address, President Obama mentioned jobs 19 times, repeating it more than any other word with any policy implications. “Our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999,” … Continue reading
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America’s war on Black girls: Why McKinney police violence isn’t about “one bad apple”
By Brittney Cooper In just over two months, we will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a natural disaster that ravaged communities along the Gulf Coast. This tragedy was made infinitely worse not only by decades of governmental neglect … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Girls, McKinney, police abuse, police violence, racism
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Rand Paul In Baltimore Speaks of Unequal Justice
By Naureen Khan Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, referred to the suicide of 22-year-old Kalief Browder as a tragic example as he spoke of justice applied unequally to black and white Americans Tuesday night. Browder was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Elections, politics, race, Rand Paul, United States
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Black Union Soldier Finally Honored Almost 100 Years After Death
Associated Press A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he died in Nevada. Nevada historians say they decided … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, civil war, history, military, Scott Carnal, slavery, Union Army
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Supreme Court could reshape voting districts, with big impact on Hispanics
By Drew DeSilver Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up a Texas case that challenges the way nearly every U.S. voting district – from school boards to Congress – is drawn. The case, in essence, asks the … Continue reading
McKinney officer Eric Casebolt resigns; police chief calls actions at pool party ‘indefensible’
By Sarah Mervosh McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley condemned as “indefensible” the actions of Eric Casebolt, an officer who resigned Tuesday, after a video of Casebolt physically confronting teenagers at a pool party attracted national attention and sparked protests. Conley said … Continue reading
Justice Or Else! Countdown to Million Man March 20th Anniversary Gathering Begins with Farrakhan’s East Coast Tour
Two decades ago the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam convened the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C., the largest mass gathering in the history of the United States and perhaps the largest gathering of Black … Continue reading
Private Prisons, Public Shame
By Mary Turck Last month the state of Washington contracted with the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., to move up to 1,000 inmates from the state’s overcrowded prisons to its correctional facility in … Continue reading
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