Eric Garner

Can anybody take seriously the question of whether Donald Trump is a racist? Vilification comes to Donald Trump as naturally as predation to a shark.
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Student debts have soared along with tuition, even as states like Florida have slashed support for higher education and direct federal grants to students have plummeted.
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"Protesters shut down I-195 amid Art Basel frenzy." This Miami Herald December 6 front page headline speaks volumes about the chasm – local, national, global – that divides those inside…
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Demonstrators around the country staged die-ins, blocked roadways and marched into stores to protest a New York grand jury’s decision to not indict a white police officer in the…
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Death, like life, occurs within an interconnected web of forces. Eric Garner died at a specific place and time, but he was drawn there by those larger unseen forces. So was the officer…
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On Wednesday night, protesters were shouting those words across the city and printing them on signs. But, even on the day that Garner died, people yards away heard it (the video…
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Here, where the excessive use of force seems to have ceased being the exception to become the rule, things may have started to change, thanks to the citizenry's efforts.
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What's beyond question is that the support of New Yorkers, who elected De Blasio believing his promises of equal treatment for all, will depend to a great degree -- after the Garner…
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In October 2005, two young men, equally unarmed, were gunned down in an action that has gone unpunished; coincidentally, one of them was also named Michael Brown.
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Almost two weeks have elapsed and much has been said about the tragedy in Ferguson, Mo., a city with a 70-percent black population and a 53-member police department, 50 of whom are…
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