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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.

Fox News’s Law & Order Experts

June 19, 2020

Nobody understands law & order better than these Fox News crime experts. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #FoxNews

Live With Carnegie Hall: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi

June 19, 2020

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi restore minstrelsy to its global context through the journeys of the banjo and the tambourine, and in tracing those journeys show what there is to reproach versus celebrate in the birth of American music

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

June 19, 2020

For a week, Seth Meyers turned the start of his show over to Amber Ruffin, who shares some of her encounters with the police.

June 19, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | June 19, 2020

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Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police. Carnegie Hall Live: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Fox News’s Law & Order Experts. Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction. The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

June 18, 2020

Labor Constituency Groups Statement on the Recent Protests

APALA, APRI, CBTU, CLUW, LCLAA, Pride At Work

This is not just a Black issue nor just a race issue. It is an institutional issue that has been built upon Black exploitation and social division. But the way some police so flagrantly kill Black people demands we all say BlackLivesMatter.

June 18, 2020

Readers Respond to Portside Posts on Police, Police Unions and the Labor Movement

Mark Allen, Elena Marcheschi; Ethan Young; Steve A Greenfield; Tina Shannon; John Tarleton; David Berger; Bill Moberly; John Meyerson; Gail Joseph: Michael Munk; Saul Schniderman; Bob Feb; Richard J. Lorenz Portside

Recent Portside posts have explored different sides of the repressive role of the police and whether or not police unions as they are constituted should remain within the labor movement. Here Portside readers respond.

June 18, 2020

Tidbits - June 18, 2020 - Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending ; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...

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Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending Must Be Cut; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...