racism
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Hundreds in Philadelphia protest vote on public school closings
Hundreds of teachers, students, parents and community members gathered March 7 to express outrage at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s…
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Florida State University students rally in honor of Trayvon Martin
One year ago on Feb. 26, a "neighborhood watch volunteer" shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death in Sanford, Fla. A…
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Sacramento confronts white supremacist anti-immigrant rally
An anti-immigrant rally held by a white supremacist organization at the California state capitol in Sacramento was met by a…
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Oregon prisoners driven to suicide by torture in solitary confinement units
The following essay was published Feb. 27 on the website rashidmod.com.
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The hidden history of Black soldiers’ resistance
While fighting at home against the hypocrisy of the U.S. government, generations of Black service members have stood and fought…
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Hundreds in New York City take to the streets against police brutality
Demanding an end to police brutality, a march of hundreds in New York City showed the New York Police Department…
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Justice for Kevin Clark! Stop Racist Police Brutality!
With a banner reading “From the Mission District to the whole Bay Area—Stop Racist Police Brutality,” over 300 community members…
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150 years ago: first Black soldiers recruited into Civil War
On February 16, 1863, Boston, Mass. residents opened their newspapers to find an unprecedented advertisement in the daily newspaper. It…
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Police terrorism: a daily occurrence
he fact is that these officers’ main objective, like all others across the country, is not to serve and protect…
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Wilmington 10 pardoned
The recent pardon of the Wilmington 10 re-excavates not only the 1971 events that lead to their arrests, but also…
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