After sexist attack by GOP colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on House floor, her parents 'Did Not Raise Me to Accept Abuse From Men'. "It is cultural. It is a culture of...impunity, of accepting violence and violent language against women."
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Trump has used the same ploy utilized by Hitler: Create the straw dog of racism as a scapegoat to explain the plight of the working class and use this propaganda to convince people to betray their own class interests.
During the 19th century,the U.S. government encouraged the extermination of the bison as a means to subdue Native Americans and facilitate the country’s western expansion.
There was slavery in Illinois for more than 100 years. Even after Illinois entered the Union, loopholes in its laws allowed the practice to continue, making the future Land of Lincoln a quasi-slave state.
Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd, the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, erected in 1890, has been a focus of protests, graffiti, and public pressure calling for the removal of this offensive symbol of Confederate aspiration.
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The Southern Key argues that much of what is important in politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 30s and 40s, notably the failures of southern labor organizing during this period.
The joys and horrors of social media... Organizing protest! Surveillance stalkerware! And more
John Lewis declares that, during the 1960s, he was arrested “a few times.” Then the elder statesman and éminence grise of the civil rights movement pauses before correcting himself in front of the large Dallas crowd he’s addressing: “40 times…"
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