World leaders are returning home from the annual G7 summit, having failed to address issues such as income inequality, climate change and territorial conflict, while entertaining the wealthy executives of the artificial intelligence and fossil fuel industries.
On Tuesday, hundreds marched through downtown Senatobia, Mississippi, in protest of the police murder of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley two days prior. Police responded to the protest by teargassing the protesters.
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"The problem for Black people is not a failure to remember the past; rather, it is that the past is not past. We are witnessing the continuation of systems and practices that remind us, repeatedly, that we have no rights that the white state is bound to respect."
Thinking on the Black freedom struggle from June 19, 1865, to now, where do we collectively want to see ourselves next?
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On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a motion to join a lawsuit attempting to block the U.S.’s first and only reparations program. The lawsuit argues that the reparations program violates the rights of non-Black residents.
In most circumstances, the Electoral College selects the same winner a popular vote model would. But a handful of times in U.S. history — including in the 2016 race won by Trump — the Electoral College has selected a winner who did not win a majority or even a plurality of votes
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In 1919, Black families began to migrate in large numbers to the Midwest. When Black families arrived in the city of Evanston – less than 20 miles from Chicago – the city implemented discriminatory housing practices. Black families were prevented from moving into homes in most of the city.
The city became one of the most segregated cities in the U.S., and discrimination in providing mortgages to Black homebuyers continued to the eve of the 2020 George Floyd rebellion.
The language of “antisemitism” and concerns around “campus climate” have been co-opted by Zionist students and admins to transform universities from spaces of learning to sites of indoctrination. Specifically, indoctrination that normalizes anti-Arab racism and penalizes anti-imperial thought.
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“We cannot accept a world where an alleged shoplifting call ends with a child dead,” said civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.