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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised quite a kerfuffle by using the term "concentration camps" to describe the current administration's use of military encampments to hold refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants in abhorrent conditions

These restrictions have already cost many thousands of people their health coverage and access to care and could harm millions more.

Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"

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Now they face foreclosure. Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

But the persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past.

The phrase is seeping into mainstream media discourse, a far cry from its former days as an extremist catch phrase, and it’s creating a dangerous situation with an ominous historical context.

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why the hysteria surrounding the 1989 case caused more children to stand trial as adults than at any other time in U.S. history.

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