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The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy becomes, the use of race in school placement.

In an eye-opening documentary The League, director Sam Pollard tells a fully-rounded tale of how Black baseball used to thrive. By the 1940s, baseball was the third largest economic institution in Black communities.

160,000 actors, members of SAG-AFTRA, are shutting down all industry filming and voice-over production at midnight tonight. They are joining the 11,000 writers, members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strike since May 2.

Repression breeds resistance in the West Bank, Guatemala, France and Myanmar

In addition to stepping up to mitigate climate change & green the world’s economy, the free nations must harden our democracies against reactive rightwing violence & hate-based political movements...

The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff.

A hopeful story about the survival of independent local newspapers

The real outrage isn’t that people can get vaccinated, but that due to pharmaceutical greed and government inaction, billions of people can’t.

The train wreck that is Twitter, and other fun stuff

Amazon is still refusing to recognize the union, much less begin negotiations. In the face of this stalemate, two approaches have emerged, and they are in conflict.