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Evanston's Road to Reparations

Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine
Compensating African Americans for the wrongs of history has been a political nonstarter for decades. Then, last November, one Chicago suburb made it a reality.

Racism and the Working Class

Jack Metzgar Working-Class Perspectives
If there is a common working-class culture across racial and ethnic groups, as I think there is, white racism cannot be part of what is common in that culture, because about 40% of the American working class is not white.

A Politics of Our Time: Reworking Afro-Asian Solidarity

Yuichiro Onishi UnMargin
Asian Americans’ relationship to state violence that disproportionately affects Black men and women is entangled within existing relations of hierarchy and exploitation in complex ways. Given this, we would do well, to hone a politics of our time.

NBA Players Face the Question: To Boycott or Not to Boycott

Dave Zirin The Nation
A debate heats up among NBA players over whether to return to the court amid nationwide protests against racist violence. Many players feel the issues of racial justice and stopping police violence are pressing, now is not the time for pro basketball

No Justice. No Peace.

Mehrsa Baradaran The American Prospect
Underlying the nationwide protests for black lives is the racial wealth gap.

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Fight for Rights, Will to Power: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Greg Tate British Film Institute
Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in the Swedish television archives (filmed from 1967 - 1975) originally released as a film in 2011 and currently streaming on Amazon Prime and YouTube.

Strike for Black Lives

Particles for Justice
Wednesday, June 10: A Strike For Black Lives #STRIKE4BLACKLIVES #STRIKEFORBLACKLIVES #SHUTDOWNSTEM WHO ARE THE PARTICLES FOR JUSTICE?
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