racism
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The Angola 3: A footstep on the stairway to freedom
The writer is a member of the National Coalition to Free the Angola 3. For more information on the Angola…
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Commemorating the liberation of Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur, an African American freedom fighter, was convicted of killing a New Jersey cop in 1973. She escaped prison…
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School desegregation under attack by racist court rulings
Busing to desegregate the city of Birmingham Ala., a focal point of many hard-fought struggles in the civil rights movement…
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Racist and fascist groups are not welcome!
On October 4, Columbia University’s College Republicans invited Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist to speak on campus. The invitation generated…
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Analysis
NYC ruling class targets Black, Latino City University students
The number of African American students at the City University of New York’s main campuses has dropped sharply, according to…
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San Francisco communities fight racism, gentrification
Urban gentrification affects cities all across the country, driving up rents while driving out poor and working-class residents who are…
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Legal brief filed in Muma Abu-Jamal’s case
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982 on charges of shooting a Philadelphia cop. He…
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Brown University admits complicity in slave trade
A central foundation for the emergence of large scale capitalism in America was slavery. It was a brutal institution within…
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Immigrants sue racist Arizona attorney general for seizing funds
Javier Torres, a truck driver from Burbank, Ill., a Chicago suburb, bought a car for $1,000 from a friend in…
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Remembering the Black Panthers
This article first appeared in the October 2006 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine. Forty years ago, in October 1966,…
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