Last week, conservative right-wing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative right-wing, and Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat, engaged in a discourse that evolved into a heated confrontation outside of the Capitol. The day after the verbal altercation Greene went on…
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Can A KKK Robe Ever Be Used In Education? Kentucky History Teacher Sparks Debate
Can a KKK robe ever be used to teach the history of racism in America, or is the garment itself simply too racist?
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‘We Keep Us Safe…Riots Work’: Minnesota Man Used Police Award Ceremony To Speak Out Against Them
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Alex Mingus may have won the internet this weekend. In a viral video, Mingus accepted a “valor award” from police in Saint Paul, Minneapolis. After the Saint Paul interim police chief gave remarks, Mingus took…
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The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings Are Done. The Work to Defend Democracy Must Continue.
Source: ALEX BRANDON / Getty What America saw on Jan. 6, 2021, was not an aberration but a glimpse at what truly lies just beneath the surface of modern American politics – an angry and dangerous confederation of individuals and…
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Fear Of A Black Planet: Ex-Marine Plotted To Create ‘White Ethno-State’ By Rape, Court Documents Say
A police officer allegedly helped a U.S. Marine purchase illegal weapons, which the Marine planned to use to commit vicious hate crimes: An American story. In fact, this is very much characteristically America since earlier this month, every single House…
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OP-ED: Police-Free Schools Are Critical To Reproductive Freedom
Source: The Washington Post / Getty On Friday, the Supreme Court leveraged the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision to strike down Roe v. Wade. This devastating ruling allows states to ban safe and legal abortion at any stage of…
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Beyond Juneteenth 2022 To Fighting For the Next Round Of Freedom
Source: Go Nakamura / Getty Across the country, Black people are basking in the joy of the Juneteenth holiday. Long before it was granted Federal holiday status, Juneteenth offered an opportunity for Black people to celebrate their freedom and self-determination. …
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Internalizing White Supremacy: What We Can Learn From Liberia
In the wake of the shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake, many white Americans are grappling with the realization that racism is deeply entrenched in society. Yet, for Black Americans, an uncomfortable question is whether white racism is…
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Trump Says Understanding Black ‘Anger And Pain’ Isn’t His Responsibility: Woodward Tapes
Source: Pool / Getty Veteran journalist Bob Woodward‘s explosive series of interviews with Donald Trump has not only revealed the president’s blase approach to the coronavirus — an approach that arguably led to nearly 200,000 Americans dying — but it…
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Colin Kaepernick trashes July 4 as ‘celebration of White supremacy’
Colin Kaepernick (Photo by A.R. Shaw for Steed Media) Welp, so much for exiled quarterback Colin Kaepernick playing in the NFL ever again — or at least that’s what some fans believe now. Needless to say, Kaepernick did not spend…
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