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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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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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‘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

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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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Newly Elected Mayor Locked Out Of City Hall In Struggling St. Louis County Town

By Mariah Stewart   Just minutes away from Ferguson, its now-famous neighbor, is Kinloch, the first well-established African-American community in St. Louis County. Kinloch was once a flourishing town with some 10,000 residents. Today, the population is less than 300. … Continue reading

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The Economics of Ferguson: Emerson Electric, Municipal Fines, Discriminatory Policing

By Walter Johnson Take a walk along West Florissant Avenue, in Ferguson, Missouri. Head south of the burned-out Quik Trip and the famous McDonalds, south of the intersection with Chambers, south almost to the city limit, to the corner of … Continue reading

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How Slavery Gave Capitalism Its Start

By Eric Herschthal Capitalism in the U.S. owes much of its start to slavery, which in turn owed much of its success to government handouts. Perhaps the most durable myth about slavery is that it was utterly incompatible with capitalism. Well … Continue reading

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The Murderous Scam White Elites Have Perpetrated on Blacks and Whites for at Least 4 Centuries

By Chauncey DeVega The idea of “whiteness” as a strict racial category superior to others is an invention of Europeans, who needed to legitimate and normalize a system of white on black chattel slavery, global empire, and colonialism as being … Continue reading

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Freddie Gray was not in seatbelt during fatal arrest, police confirm

By Oliver Laughland Freddie Gray had no seatbelt on in the police van where he was placed in handcuffs and later put in leg irons, police said as they confirmed the possible breach of protocol forms part of their investigation … Continue reading

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How the War on Drugs Contributes to the ‘1.5 Million Missing Black Men’ 

By Tony Newman On Monday, the New York Times published a deeply upsetting piece titled, “1.5 Million Missing Black Men.” According to the Times, “Black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that … Continue reading

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