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June 19, 2020

JUNETEENTH AND THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS

Rebecca Dixon National Employment Law Project

As we contribute to the fight for workers’ rights and to build worker power, we are clear that the origins of the U.S. labor movement start with enslaved African people and their descendants struggling for emancipation.

June 19, 2020

Death Due to Sleep Deprivation Linked Causally to the Gut, and is Preventable in Flies

genengnews

“We’ve identified a central issue that, when eliminated, allows for survival without sleep, at least in fruit flies... We need to understand the biology of how sleep deprivation damages the body, so that we can find ways to prevent this harm."

June 19, 2020

Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be "De-Militarized" When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?

Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early Portside

Getting police departments to stop acting like an occupying army will require many fundamental changes, including much closer screening of job applicants who are veterans and ending their preferential hiring treatment.

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom

Jelani Cobb The New Yorker

Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.

June 19, 2020

Racial Terror: 2,000 Black Americans Were Lynched in Reconstruction Era, Report Says

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

The killings during the 12-year period adds to the 4,400 victims from the post-Reconstruction era of 1877 to 1950, bringing the total number of people lynched to 6,500

The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

June 19, 2020

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Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction

June 19, 2020

EJI's Reconstruction in America report (http://eji.org/reconstruction) documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed during 1865-1877. The legacy of lynching is evident in racially motivated violence that continues today. Read more.

Portside

JUNETEENTH AND THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS

Death Due to Sleep Deprivation Linked Causally to the Gut, and is Preventable in Flies

Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be "De-Militarized" When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?

Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom

Racial Terror: 2,000 Black Americans Were Lynched in Reconstruction Era, Report Says

The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction

Fox News’s Law & Order Experts

Live With Carnegie Hall: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi

Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police