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• Bayard: The Labor Day Dreams of Black Workers

  Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond
• Gordon-Reed: Growing Up With Juneteenth

  How a Texan holiday became a national tradition
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  Cunningham-Cook: Black Worker Centers: Building Workplace Power in the Communities

  Worker centers in general serve as a clearinghouse for workers’ needs when forming a union is all but impossible
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  León: Black Workers in Alabama Aim to Slay the Trillion-Dollar Behemoth That Is Amazon

  “Amazon workers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and especially the 85% of Black Lives that go to that fulfillment center daily to work, but whose work is grossly undervalued”
• Anderson: Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Future of the Postal Service

  USPS is a vital source of decent jobs for Black workers. It could also narrow the racial wealth divide by expanding financial services
• Michael Schwartz & Kevin A. Young: When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1 Percent Wins

  Movements can only answer the needs of those at the bottom by positioning them as decision-makers
• Mannon: Led by Black Women, Organizers in Georgia Work to Replicate Election Success in Senate Runoff

  After turning out Georgia voters in record numbers in the general election, organizers work to mobilize the youth vote in the pivotal Senate runoff election
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  Rosen: Insurgency Matters: Progressive DAs May Change Policing

  A June 2020 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found the 95 percent of those polled reported that criminal justice reform was necessary
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  Hussain: Nonwhite Voters Are Not Immune to the Appeal of Right-Wing Populism

  From Toronto’s Rob Ford to Donald Trump, racist candidates attract nonwhite support. What gives?
• Collective 20: From 2000 Feet

  The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
• Collins: Trump made gains with Black voters in some states. Here’s why.

  With disinformation and economic promises, Trump lobbied hard for the Black vote in the final days of the campaign
• Hernandez-Reguant: Meeting Trump’s Supporters in the Most Cuban Place Outside of Cuba

  South Florida’s new Cuban immigrants are strong supporters of President Trump, offsetting the liberal trend among US-born Cuban-Americans
• Gonzalez: The Media Has It Wrong. Record Latinx Turnout Helped Biden. White Voters Failed Dems

  “The main story is that people of color, especially Latinos, flocked to the polls in numbers that far exceeded what the experts had expected, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election”
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  Naureckas: Campaign Analysts Miss the Signal in the Noise

  Among the almost three-fourths of voters whose households make less than $100,000 a year, Trump trails badly
• Franco: Arizona’s Blue Shift Rooted in Years of Grassroots Latinx Organizing Against GOP’s Xenophobia

  “The lion’s share of the credit belongs to sustained community organizing in the state”
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  Kolhatkar: Hoopla Over Harris VP Selection Obscures Many Young People of Color Who Are Winning Offices Nationally

  The debate over Biden’s running mate obscures a far more exciting development in American politics: that young people of color with clearly progressive values are running for office and winning
• Gurtov: Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos

  “Normal” isn’t good, as in the following warning in November 2019: "we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.”
• Wilkerson: America’s ‘Untouchables’: the Silent Power of the Caste System

  More than a century and a half before the American Revolution, a human hierarchy had evolved on the soil of the future United States. To comprehend the current upheavals one must understand the human pyramid encrypted into us all: the caste system.
• Smith: Harlem’s Pearl – James Baldwin

  Baldwin transformed a horrifying legacy of pain and rage into grace and light
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  Speri: Federal Agents at Protests Renew Calls to Dismantle Homeland Security

  After months of protests demanding the defunding of police, the abduction of protesters turns the focus to Homeland Security
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  Bohmer: Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!

  We should reach out and listen before we criticize some of their actions. These direct-action resisters have the potential or already are an important part of social movements and organizations that demand a better world
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  Agnew: Black Voters Are Ready. Are We?

  Bernie Sanders proves the Left needs more than a charismatic presidential candidate (though it would help and be a whole lot of fun). We need a more diverse base of people, namely more Black people.
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  Shakur: Detroiters lack privilege to distance socially

  Source: Deadline Detroit The “hood” is the center of many...
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  Daniels: Why Bernie Sander’s Campaign Mattered….And Faltered

  For all of his brilliance and accomplishments, Bernie’s flawed approach on race may render him incapable of being more than the titular head of the movement he birthed
• Taylor: The Black Plague

  Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?