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The Myth of Upward Mobility in America 

Posted on July 20, 2016 by The Soul Brother

By Sarah Lazare Soaring inequality in America has been accompanied by a plummet in upward mobility since the early 1980s, with those who earn modest incomes in their first jobs likely to remain trapped in low-wage work for decades, a … Continue reading →

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On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart

Posted on July 20, 2016 by The Soul Brother

Pew Research Center Almost eight years after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president –an event that engendered a sense of optimism among many Americans about the future of race relations1 – a series of flashpoints around the … Continue reading →

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Rage, Race and Rebellion: Class Warfare and Frustration in African American Communities

Posted on May 6, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Stephen Balkaran   Evaluating the series of constant protest throughout the country at times violent, but mostly non-violent has left a deep uncertainty on the role rage, race and rebellion that continue to plague many African American communities. These … Continue reading →

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Are We Witnessing the Emergence of A Black Spring?

Posted on May 5, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Priscilla Ocen & Khaled A. Beydoun View image | gettyimages.com In the spring of 2010, we witnessed massive protests in the Arab World. The people of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya had enough; they had enough of the violence propagated … Continue reading →

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The enduring shame of ‘separate and unequal’

Posted on May 5, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Katrina vanden Heuvel ` In July 1966, James Baldwin published “A Report from Occupied Territory,” a despairing essay in The Nation contemplating race relations in Harlem and other American cities. Describing the deep sense of alienation and despair in … Continue reading →

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Americans are utterly powerless

Posted on April 29, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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The 9 Worst Things Said About Women, Abortion, and Rape in 2013

Posted on December 20, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Molly Redden Opponents of reproductive rights had a busy 2013. By the end of June, state lawmakers had passed 43 abortion restrictions into law—as many restrictions as were enacted in all of 2012, according to an analysis by the … Continue reading →

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‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’

Posted on December 13, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By David Simon America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of … Continue reading →

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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

Posted on December 2, 2013 by The Soul Brother

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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Pope Francis calls unfettered capitalism ‘tyranny’ and urges rich to share wealth

Posted on November 26, 2013 by The Soul Brother

Pope Francis has attacked unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny”, urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality in the first major work he has authored alone as pontiff. The 84-page document, known as an apostolic exhortation, amounted to … Continue reading →

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