racism

Baltimore riots show the limits of President Obama's hands-off approach.
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This year, after a prolonged investigation of the Ferguson Mo., police department, the U.S. Justice Department issued a report concluding that “nearly every aspect of Ferguson’s law…
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Surely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people.
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Scathing. That's the word used by most of the media to characterize the report issued last week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on race and policing in Ferguson, Missouri.
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He had been a fringe figure, known mostly to a small circle of black Muslims and big-city sophisticates, but now he was branching out — seeking allies at home and abroad to help him…
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The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and…
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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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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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