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Youth of color: Watched and shot
by Mark Lewis Taylor Hoodies like the one Trayvon Martin is wearing here and the one he wore the night George Zimmerman murdered him have become a powerful symbol of the demonization of Black youth....
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A police lynching happens every 36 hours
by Dr. David J. Leonard Throughout the early part of the 20th century, African-American activists fought to thwart the systemic scourge of lynching. Faced with a silent and complicit populace,...
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Black Lives Matter activists shut down Emeryville Home Depot for 5 hours,...
by Chinyere Tutashinda The group that shut down BART on Black Friday in November and shut down Oakland police headquarters in December – making Black Lives Matter a household phrase around the world –...
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After Baltimore, mothers of police murder victims issue a call to reclaim...
Mothers of victims of police murders stand outside of the White House following a refusal by Obama to meet with them in December 2014. – Photo: Code Pink Why I will march for my son, Sean Bell, and all...
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#LaquanMcDonald: As video released, cop charged with murder 1, activists...
by DeAngelo Bester, Workers Center for Racial Justice Chicago – The City of Chicago has just released, under court order, the dashcam video from the brutal killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a...
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Black Chicagoans with disabilities stand solid against police terror
by Leroy Moore In 2004, I wrote a poem about a Puerto Rican activist who had a physical disability and fought against police brutality and wrongful incarceration in the city of Chicago. I’m talking...
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UN panel hears wrenching testimony of abuse in Black Chicago
by Ken Hare, Chicago Defender After 2.5 years of foundation laying work, Willie JR Fleming of the Anti-Eviction Campaign has finally caught the attention of the international community. At his behest,...
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Free Wil B and the other 13 defendants fighting police terror in LA!
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Block Report Radio interviews Wil B about the charges that can land him in prison for eight and a half years after being arrested at an anti-police terrorism...
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Jesse Williams: ‘a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us...
by Jesse Williams at BET Awards Beginning with thanks to people who inspire him, especially his parents for ensuring “I learned what the schools were afraid to teach us,” Jesse Williams launched into...
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Whites face race: Let’s talk and act
by LeRon L. Barton At a converted movie theater in the Mission, an anti-racism event called Let’s Take Action drew a mostly white packed house on July 12. – Photo: LaRon L. Barton When you walk into...
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Do we need white revolutionaries to rise up?
by Jacqueline Bediako As a Black woman, I am oppressed by a white supremacist society. Just like the other Black men and women – Matthew Ajibade, Rekia Boyd, Darrien Hunt, Sandra Bland and Joyce...
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Black August 2016
by NABPP-PC Minister of Justice Bobby Marion Dixon From behind the enemy lines of the California State Prison System, from within the “belly of the beast” that is the Amerikan injustice system, I greet...
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The link between climate justice and police brutality
by Jacqueline Bediako Protester “speaks” truth. – Photo: Wojtek Radwanski, AFP Toxic environments, as evidenced by human exposure to dirty water or polluted air, are deadly for everyone. The police, or...
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Youth of color: Watched and shot
by Mark Lewis Taylor Trayvon Martin and Mumia Abu-Jamal. One is dead. One languished on death row for 30 years. They are separated in age by a generation, separated by different locations and different...
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A police lynching happens every 36 hours
by Dr. David J. Leonard Throughout the early part of the 20th century, African-American activists fought to thwart the systemic scourge of lynching. Faced with a silent and complicit populace,...
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Black Lives Matter activists shut down Emeryville Home Depot for 5 hours,...
by Chinyere Tutashinda The group that shut down BART on Black Friday in November and shut down Oakland police headquarters in December – making Black Lives Matter a household phrase around the world –...
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After Baltimore, mothers of police murder victims issue a call to reclaim...
Mothers of victims of police murders stand outside of the White House following a refusal by Obama to meet with them in December 2014. – Photo: Code Pink Why I will march for my son, Sean Bell, and all...
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#LaquanMcDonald: As video released, cop charged with murder 1, activists...
by DeAngelo Bester, Workers Center for Racial Justice Chicago – The City of Chicago has just released, under court order, the dashcam video from the brutal killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a...
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Black Chicagoans with disabilities stand solid against police terror
by Leroy Moore In 2004, I wrote a poem about a Puerto Rican activist who had a physical disability and fought against police brutality and wrongful incarceration in the city of Chicago. I’m talking...
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UN panel hears wrenching testimony of abuse in Black Chicago
by Ken Hare, Chicago Defender After 2.5 years of foundation laying work, Willie JR Fleming of the Anti-Eviction Campaign has finally caught the attention of the international community. At his behest,...
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