Thursday, April 25, 2024

5 ways to address internalized white supremacy and its impact on health

In this era of multiple pandemics, discussing the impact of internalized racism on our health is crucial to furthering Black resistance, healing and emancipation.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 23

Verizon confirms throttling internet in California during deadly wildfires, Michael Cohen won't accept a pardon from Trump, new poll shows Sanders would be Trump in 2020, and more.
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Meet Alvaro Enciso, the artist placing crosses in Sonoran desert to memorialize migrant deaths

More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to...

Here are the major companies cutting ties with the NRA

The NRA has a host of more than twenty national corporations that offer discounts to their members, but that number is shrinking fast.

Indian Country treaties are valid—and matter, says Supreme Court ruling

“Promises were made,” Justice Gorsuch said in upholding Creek Nation jurisdiction over half of Oklahoma.

VIDEO: Artist Emily Jacir Brings the Palestinian Experience to the Venice Biennale

As the most prestigious international biennial art exhibition in the world takes place in Italy, Democracy Now speaks with one of the most celebrated Palestinian artists, Emily Jacir, who joins the Venice Biennale.

Workers, employers react to ‘Dynamex’ bill amendments

“Employers who mis-classify workers should be punished, but destroying the business model that contractors around the state have built careers on isn’t the way to address that issue.”

The Mainstream Media Wants You to Doubt Bernie Sanders’ Activism

Mainstream media jumped at the opportunity to discredit Bernie Sanders when a group of alumni came forward claiming a famous picture of Sanders speaking before a civil rights protest was actually of someone else.

73 years after US dropped atom bomb on Nagasaki, survivor warns about threat of...

In 1954, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people and forever changing the lives of those who survived the nuclear attack.

TV stations follow John Oliver’s lead in the movement to forgive medical debt

How former debt collectors showed everyone how to buy up people’s medical debt at pennies on the dollar.