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Freeman-Woolpert: #BlackFridays walkouts turn rage into action and community
After the #BlackFridays actions end this week, organizers will be encouraging people to connect with local movements in their communities, lift up local activists and take direction from people of color leading those initiatives
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Daniels: The Unfulfilled Power of the Black Vote
Black leaders must devise strategies to educate, motivate, inspire and energize millions of unregistered, improbable Black voters to burst into the arena to become the cornerstone of progressive coalitions
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Resistance: Celebrate Black August: The Power of Prisoner-Led Organizing
The month of August bursts at the seams with histories of Black resistance--from the Haitian Revolution to the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Fugitive Slave Law Convention and the founding of the Underground Railroad...
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Horne: The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The years between 1603 and 1714 were perhaps the most...
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Tompkins: Woke Hollywood? The Marketing of Black Panther
Schools and neighborhoods will continue to deteriorate thanks to the very policies and promotions that make a film like Black Panther possible
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Lee: The Disturbing Messages in Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’?
Black America deserves a more radical superhero to call its own
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Jackson: How Trump Trauma Is Resurrecting the Jim Crow Era
I truly hope an outcome of the insanity is that people reclaim their humanity and sanity and social justice
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Rana: Against National Security Citizenship
Any truly progressive social base must be built on a vision of solidarity that rejects false nationalisms and that connects arguments about U.S. power to those about political economy
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After Donald Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”...
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Zaitchik: Close encounters of the racist kind
The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien
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Picciolini: How to Stop Hate Groups from Spreading
Interview on a new book, "White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out"
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Moser: Whiteness Won’t Be Wished Away
For white workers, class interest will lead the way to other things. But, race is so deeply a part how class works in the U.S. that it is impossible to separate the two.
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Johnson: Median net worth of black Bostonians is $8
The $8 detail in the Globe’s Spotlight series on race...
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Fleeing rape, torture and mass killing, Burmese Rohingya arrive in this camp of half a million souls, traumatized by the military operation to ‘cleanse’ Myanmar of Muslims
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King: NFL’s Gesture Rings Hollow
The league cannot, in truth and sincerity, say it cares about criminal justice reform while ruining a man’s career for showing us all just how much he cares about it
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Younge: My Harrowing Journey Through White America
The rise of the alt-right is no coincidence. For millions of Americans, race is all they have
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Frazier: The Return of Black Political Power
How 1970s History Can Guide New Black Mayors Toward a Radical City
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Zeese: Racism, Propaganda And Wars
By linking hands with our brothers and sisters around the planet and working for peace, we can bring about a multi-polar world in which all people have peace, self-determination and live in dignity
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Costantini: The ‘Millennium Migration’
The only immigration "crisis" is the cascading assault on civil liberties — and human rights — by racists and immigration restrictionists
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The history of the border and migration have been influenced by powers and patterns that we need to examine in order to see what pathways lie open to us for the future and how to address the sources of fear today
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Sanchez: Why Teach Reconstruction?
The Reconstruction period teaches us that when it comes to justice and equality, what may seem impossible is indeed possible
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Cook: Netanyahu exposing Israel’s secret?
New law would tell Palestinian citizens in Israel that they are not equal
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The work of undoing racist myths cannot stop until there are pathways to full enfranchisement for all 11.1 million of our co-workers, employees, friends, and fellow community members
ZMag Culture/Race
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Black Smith: #Hashtag Me TOO: Reflections on Women’s Solidarity
5 percent voted to elect the over 70, sexually aggressive, “pussy-grabbing” unproven and under-qualified man to the most powerful political office in the country.
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The vicious assault on counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia by a volatile amalgam of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Alt-Right and other white nationalist forces was one of the most horrific acts of domestic terrorism in American history
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What happened in 1967 was that the police attacking an after-hours place encapsulated what was happening in the city every night. State power was pushing hard on a Black community—but that community wasn’t passive, but dynamic, full of ideas and energy.
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
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Grossman: Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland”
We should begin to ask ourselves: if we lived in Europe during the rise of fascism in the 1920s or early 1930s, what would we actually do to stop it?
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Barber II: Why We Are Protesting in Charlotte
Instead, let’s look again at the vast, diverse majority of the protesters. This is what democracy looks like. We cannot let politicians use the protests as an excuse to back reactionary “law and order” measures. Instead, we must march and vote together for policies that will lift up the whole and ensure the justice that makes true peace possible.
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Barber: Why It’s Possible to Reject the Klan and Still Support Racism
We can neither forgive nor ignore the way 400 years of white supremacy have been naively reduced to whether a candidate will disavow the support of a hate group leader. Racism lives on in policies that perpetuate racial disparities, with or without the KKK.
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Piascik: The Northern Student Movement
Tens of thousands of young Americans were inspired by the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina and spread throughout the South. NSM Students at Yale University were no exception and some of them got together in the Fall of 1961 to form the NSM.
Culture/Race Audio
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Morello: Tom Morello Protest Song “Marching on Ferguson”
"100% of the profits from 'Marching On Ferguson' will support defending the protestors in the Ferguson area who have faced attacks, wrongful arrest, and violence from the police"
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Achcar: Egypt’s Brotherhood, ready for the political arena?
In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks...
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Trigona: Argentina’s indigenous continue to struggle as country marks bi-centennial
Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the...
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Scahill: Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for...
Culture/Race Video
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Black Smith: #Hashtag Me TOO: Reflections on Women’s Solidarity
5 percent voted to elect the over 70, sexually aggressive, “pussy-grabbing” unproven and under-qualified man to the most powerful political office in the country.
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The vicious assault on counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia by a volatile amalgam of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Alt-Right and other white nationalist forces was one of the most horrific acts of domestic terrorism in American history
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What happened in 1967 was that the police attacking an after-hours place encapsulated what was happening in the city every night. State power was pushing hard on a Black community—but that community wasn’t passive, but dynamic, full of ideas and energy.
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Kearns: What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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Peterson: Gangsta Rap-A Social Perspective
Gangsta Rap- A Social Perspective Over a span of three...
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This is my second year in Korea working as an...
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Black: “An Indigenous Olympics?”
A post that I put together for the Sociological Images...
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This Memorial eve, culture in Israel took a turn to...
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Ortiz: Distinguished Boricuas II
This is the second installment of Distinguished Boricuas. In these...
Culture/Race Books
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: African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
About the Book As African societies come to live more...
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: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked...
