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American hypocrisy exposed: U.S. slammed on racism, police brutality and human rights violations
By Charlene Muhammad The U.S. was recently condemned by a United Nations body for human rights failures, particularly with regard to racism and police murders of Black men and boys. Activists, however, aren’t holding their breath waiting for the world … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Human rights, police abuse, race, racism, United Nations
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Anti-Gay Groups Gear Up To Fight A 30-Year-Old Supreme Court Victory Over Racism
By Ian Millhiser Bob Jones University was a racist institution. Until 1971, the school did not accept black students at all, and for much of the 1970s, the school only permitted African Americans who were married to another African American … Continue reading
Kimberley Motley – How I defend the rule of law
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Tagged Afghanistan, commercial law, Human rights, international law, Kimberley Motley, law
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Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About
By Aviva Shen and Judd Legum In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into something everyone can support. This is not, … Continue reading
Abortion Restrictions Are Harming Women’s Health and Human Rights in Texas
By Andrea Flynn Last week the Supreme Court decided to leave in place a Texas law that has essentially closed a third of the abortion providers in that state. On their own, the abortion restrictions are devastating. But in the … Continue reading
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
By Mac McClelland “Don’t take anything that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc. She winks at … Continue reading
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Tagged business, corporations, Human rights, inequality, labor, Ohio, online shopping, Warehouse, work, working wage
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Senator: Food Stamps Are Just Like Slavery
By Zack Beauchamp Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) equated government programs that prevent people from dying of starvation with slavery in a new profile of his medical practice published today, revealing himself to hold a view of the role of government … Continue reading
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Tagged food, Human rights, hunger, Kentucky, poverty, Rand Paul, slavery, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners
By Al Jazeera and The Associated Press A federal judge has approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates participating in an ongoing hunger strike now entering its seventh week if necessary. The process, which prison officials … Continue reading
Challenging Punishment: What the California Prisoners Hunger Strike Tells Us About Mass Incarceration
By Samuel K. Roberts, PhD The hunger strike at Pelican Bay is the third such action in the past two years and only the most recent in a 20-year history of protests against conditions there going back to the 1995 … Continue reading
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