racism
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21 immigrant workers arrested at Smithfield slaughterhouse
On Jan. 24, 21 immigrant workers were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Smithfield Packing Company’s Tar Heel,…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal legal update
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982 on false charges of shooting a Philadelphia cop.…
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How the Klan and fascism were beaten back
Karina García was one of the Columbia University student leaders who confronted the Minutemen in October 2006. This article is…
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Immigrant detention centers hold entire families
The following article appeared Jan. 9 on pslweb.org Over the past year, the U.S. government has stepped up attacks on…
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Reconstruction and African American political power
The period of U.S. history known as Reconstruction, following the Civil War, lasted from 1865 to 1877. During this period,…
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Racist disaster ‘relief’ did not begin with Katrina
Over 75 years prior to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the greater Gulf region of the United…
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Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South
This article first appeared in the March 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation. “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written…
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Assata Shakur: a woman warrior
Alina Serrano is a student at City College of the City University of New York. In December 2006, a gain…
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Black firefighters’ legacy of struggle
A shocking incident in 1987 exposed to the San Francisco public what Black firefighters in the city had always known.…
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What is behind the expansion of U.S. prisons?
The police killings of New York 23-year-old Sean Bell in a hail of 50 shots on Nov. 25 and of…
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