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The US Is Failing Black Women With HIV

Thurka Sangaramoorthy The Conversation
Five black women aging with HIV.
...60 percent of newly diagnosed cases of HIV in women in 2017 were Black. Yet, Black women’s voices are notoriously absent from the national discourse on HIV.

Petrochemical Giants Are Slowly Killing Black Louisiana Communities

Mike Ludwig Truthout
The industry is known for getting its way in Louisiana, and the federal government has a dismal record when it comes to holding polluters accountable for environmental racism. However, local activists are fighting back with help from allies.

When Socialists Won Women’s Suffrage

Eric Blanc Jacobin
Contrary to the myth that socialists have always ignored gender oppression, women’s suffrage was first won by socialist feminists — and working-class revolt.

Ecuador’s Dilemma

Pablo Ospina Peralta Dissent
The main lesson of correísmo is that no project of transformation, if it wants to sustain and even deepen social change, can weaken the people who propel it forward.

Chicago’s Moral Debt to Black Youth

David J. Knight Chicago Reporter
The police consent decree fails to make amends to African-American young people, who are both most harmed by the department and a driving force in a city on the cusp of a historic change in leadership.

Hurricane Harvey: EPA Rejects NASA Offer to Monitor Houston Pollution

Susanne Rust and Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times
NASA’s DC-8 Flying Laboratory.
After Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, rescue crews and residents complained of nausea and dizziness. NASA scientists prepared to send the world’s most sophisticated aircraft to monitor the pollution, but Texas and the EPA told them to stay away.