racism
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500 supporters of immigrant-rights protest at Giants stadium in San Francisco
On May 29, a protest in San Francisco, meant to coincide with Arizona's Day of Action in Phoenix, attracted well…
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100,000 march in Phoenix to stop racist SB 1070
Around 100,000 people marched through the streets of Phoenix, Ariz., May 29 to demand an end to SB 1070 and…
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Thousands of Black farmers still await class-action settlement payments
Last year, a struggle by Black farmers, led by the National Black Farmers Association, forced President Obama to concede an…
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Sean Bell Way inaugurated to honor victim of police brutality
Photo: Vanissa Chan On May 18, Liverpool Street in Jamaica Queens was renamed to honor Sean Bell, who the NYPD…
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Proposed ‘citizenship’ law targets Muslims and Arab-Americans
Democrat-turned-Independent Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut recently introduced the "Terrorist Expatriation Act." The bill would strip the citizenship of anyone…
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Death penalty defendant Curtis Flowers to be tried a sixth time
On June 7, Curtis Flowers will become the first death penalty defendant to be tried six times on the same…
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Syracuse inmate denied medical treatment, dies
Chuniece Patterson was arrested on a bench warrant Nov. 10, 2009, and taken to the Justice Center jail in Syracuse,…
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Detroit: Seven-year-old girl killed by police
It is yet another case of racist police violence resulting in a horrific tragedy. Early on the morning of May…
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Racist Seattle police videotaped stomping on Latino youth
On April 17, Seattle police officers were videotaped as they stomped on and kicked a Latino man who was already…
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Georgia student fights deportation, gov’t attacks
Jessica Colotl, a twenty-one-year-old Mexican immigrant and student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, is fighting deportation after she was…
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