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Friday Nite Videos | July 21, 2017

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Keegan-Michael Key Brings Luther, Obama's Anger Translator, Out of Retirement. Mia Paz | Shelter. The Best Fox News Explanations for Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting. T-Rex Couldn't Run, But Speed Walked. Trump Turns on Sessions.

When Organizers Are Professionals

Clement Petitjean Jacobin
Is the transformation of community organizing into a “profession” a barrier to radical political change?

The Dark History of Defining ‘Family’

Mae Ngai The New York Times
Efforts to define and manipulate the definition of “family” in immigration matters are not new. For more than 100 years the government has done so, often reflecting political exigency and racial bias rather than the real needs and desires of families.

Authors of Combahee River Statement Mark 40th Anniversary

Kevin Gosztola Shadowproof
From the Combahee River Collective Statement: "We believe that sexual politics under patriarchy is as pervasive in Black women’s lives as are the politics of class and race. We also often find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously."