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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“The lion’s share of the credit belongs to sustained community organizing in the state”
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?
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Ransby: Sanders Campaign Faces Questions About African-American Support
On Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden swept the South and Midwest, winning Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas, propelled by a huge majority of African-American votes in several states
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Reed Jr.: South Carolina, Neoliberalism’s Stranglehold, and the Mystique of the ‘Black Vote’
By reducing all of black Americans' concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular black vote" in the first place, the elite political class continues to undermine our ability to organize the majoritarian social movement we need to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people in the United States
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Raskin: Négritude in The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A look at the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco
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Reeves: America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations
The discovery of the last ship that brought Africans to the United States as slaves may offer a test case for reparations. Relatives of steamship owner Timothy Meaher, still live in Mobile. So do descendants of the people he enslaved
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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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...