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Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin... isn’t afraid to point to the 2020 protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and proclaim how their cry for social justice was tantamount to terrorism. The insurrectionists of January 6, 2021, on the other hand, were no threat to anyone!
For history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being,…
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George Floyd should be here. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Andre Hill - they all should be here.
Violence was official as well as individual… The torturers and punishments of civil… justice customarily cut off hands and ears, racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart……
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Cover Story
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Anti-Black sentiment discredits anything produced by Black people that represents a fundamental cry from the belly of this country’s practice of white supremacist violence.
Like most forms of popular music, African-American blues lyrics talk about love. Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie…
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reader wants an idea of the ruling class Southern American home during these years of enslavement, here is one, the one in which she lived as a teen under the authority of adults.
We could have told them a different story. We could have given them a chapter of wrongs and sufferings… -Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of…
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It’s difficult to plan for tomorrow if today you are threatened by the presence of burning crosses on your lawn.
Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South -(Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit,” Abel Meeropol) Leaving behind nights of terror and fear…
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Commentary
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We are talking about change. How do we bring about social democracy that includes all of our citizens?
Too often, when I listen to a podcast in which two or more white Americans are conversing, it feels as if I’m eavesdropping. They have forgotten…
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Those Americans who don’t talk politics attempt to silence dissent.
They go around like ghosts, this must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so,…
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His 1852 records reveal how closely the system of productivity, while linking enslaved Blacks to the land and from there to the market, the slaveholder and those depended on this way of existing in the world among others, also produces a culture indifferent to its inherent cruelty.
A Slave Is A Dead Soul. -Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiography of a Slave Jefferson’s embrace of empire evolved around the liberties of white men rather than…
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People invest in the thought process and the behavior of a racist to make sure Blacks are discredited, dehumanized, disappeared.
Many of us know from experience that racists hate. Blacks trying to explain this, have been called “extremists.” Radical. It’s not a matter of disliking, say,…
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Editorial Board
Behind the phrase, “racial issues,” stands the idea of justice and egalitarian thinking and, most importantly, the practice of systemic (institutionalized) racism.
A couple of weeks ago, in the last days of 2020, a 14-year-old named Keyon Harrod, Jr., with a cell phone in his hand, is assaulted…
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