The Jewish community is now with a profound moral challenge. Even as we mourns our dead in Israel, we must acknowledge and protest the genocide Israel is currently perpetrating in their memory in no uncertain terms.
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12..."What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing. We have become Nazis."
Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.
A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not exist in the past. Lynching Black men is nothing new....
Union organizer fired for insubordination. In 1779, no peace for Native Americans. Sojourner Truth takes her new name. Child labor on the rise. "No nukes" on Long Island. Boston says NO! to slave-catchers. Anti-slavery novel is a best-seller.
I am no longer willing to endorse a cultural norm whereby artists & artist-educators passively participate-in, and benefit-from institutions born and bolstered through the justification..or practice of exploiting and destroying Black and Native life
Incivility runs through the history of this country, founded on stolen land, built with the labor of stolen lives. The document that governs our lives effectively denied more than half of the population the right to vote.
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The charge, while provocative, offers a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
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