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Seeking Fantasies Across The Sea
A young boy, no more than sixteen, steers a battered trawler boat with an unyielding focus on the darkness ahead. Between the congestion of bodies on board, a pregnant woman passes in and out of...
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How Black Lives Became The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy
The story of “John Doe 1” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle...
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Black MAGA Is Still MAGA
Consider Donald Trump to be in a racial bind when it comes to election 2024. After all, he needs Black voters to at least defect from Joe Biden in swing states, if not actually vote for him. Yet, more...
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The World’s Forgotten War
“Don’t worry, Séra, the entire world is watching them, they won’t be able to do anything.” “You think so?” “Of course.” In my heart of hearts, I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in...
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Calculating the ‘White Bonus’
The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to white people shapes systemic injustice, has been hotly contested since the term was popularized by women’s...
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A Water Crisis in Mississippi Turns Into a Fight Against Privatization
In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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Outraged by White Rural Rage
I don’t like to slam books, especially those ahead of mine on the best seller list. It might seem like petty jealousy. But one recent release, White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, is...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing
Born out of oppressive conditions of the Black experience under white supremacy, the rich musical tradition of what is commonly known as “jazz” has a long and intimate relationship with the struggle...
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Russia: Moscow Terror Attack Met With Repression, Racism
At least 139 people have been confirmed dead, with many more injured or still unaccounted for, following the horrific terrorist attack carried out at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22. But Russian...
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DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals For Green Growth
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), encapsulate the deadly links between war,...
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Keep Eyes on Sudan
In the global discourse on humanitarian crises, the struggle of the Sudanese people is often overshadowed by more widely publicized conflicts. Currently home to over 10 million displaced individuals...
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‘Opera has never been white’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in...
It was 1781 when a 14-year-old girl made her debut as an opera soloist in Saint-Domingue, the former French colony now called Haiti. She was a free person of color, the first person of African descent...
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Why We Need a World Without Cars
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the future of transportation. Specifically, I uncover why we need a world without cars. Instead, we need a future of dense...
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How The ‘Fight Against Antisemitism’ Became A Shield For Israel’s Genocide
If you read the establishment media, you might conclude that a serious battle is being waged by Israel and its most ardent supporters to tackle an apparent new wave of antisemitism in the West. In...
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W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of...
W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists argue that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father of American sociology. His groundbreaking...
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Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking on a Political Machine
Four decades ago, at the start of 1984, Harold Washington was finishing his historic opening year in office as Chicago’s first Black mayor. An outsider candidate who had been persuaded to run by the...
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The Concept “Privilege”: Barrier or Bridge to Social Justice
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does using the concept privilege as in “white privilege,” “male...
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Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing...
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part...
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