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2019 has seen an outpouring of local and state efforts to stem the tide of mass incarceration, from bail reform and mass bailouts, to efforts to close jails and legislation to divert people from lengthy prison sentences.
The 1898 white supremacist riot in Wilmington, North Carolina, which African American writer Charles Chesnutt immortalized in his novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901), is brought to life again in this new historical account.
For too long, Jewish communal institutions have adopted a “just us” approach. The ADL and United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, two central organizers of Sunday’s march, have long histories of demonizing Muslim and Palestinian communities...
The state and White supremacists have united to target immigrant activists. The criminalization of immigrant activists in the Trump era has resulted in the disruption of free speech against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.
HBO's Watchmen's writing presents through-lines from slavery to Reconstruction to the so-called “alt-right”; from, as Rage Against The Machine once put it, those who work forces to those who burn crosses.
To reduce his presidency to a frail mind is to ignore the fact he’s an emblem of free-market, white supremacist nationalism
Busting Google; Taxing Amazon; Indie Media; Those Darn Pundits; Who Owns Spider-Man?; Epstein's MIT Buddies; Remembering Gene Crick; Build Tech We Trust
In this interview, Horne describes the role of racism in the development of jazz, the gulf between its domestic and international reception; and why creativity, improvisation and technical mastery were a means of survival for its performers.
An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences.
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