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A world without Black Twitter is a world void of robust, rapid and authentic information sharing on police brutality within the Black community.
Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy
Young people in the labor movement want to bargain on climate issues in contract negotiations.
George Floyd was committed to being a person that mattered. But he was also Black, so he could never catch a break. As he got older the police were always at the ready. The day Chauvin murdered him was not the first time he had met Chauvin.
Before copaganda became widely televised in shows like “Law & Order,” police were more accurately portrayed as abusers of power.
An idea informing Davis’ discussion was what she cited as Antonio Gramsci’s adage of possessing “pessimism of the intellect” and “optimism of the will” when advocating for social justice and building cultural movements.
How the founders of one of Black Lives Matter’s most prominent organizations fell out.
Lincoln' Thanksgiving intended to unite a divided country and to include in an unprecedented way African-Americans in the ideal of liberty announced in 1776. Thanksgiving should be the Fourth of July without enslaved and masters.
There’s no legal right anywhere in the United States to self-defense against systemic injustice. By contrast, there is a right, in many states, to “stand your ground.”
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