Tag: racism
Estimated 5.2 million Americans with felony conviction barred from voting in...
The study concluded that "when we break these figures down by race and ethnicity, it is clear that disparities in the criminal justice system are linked to disparities in political representation."
Greensboro Massacre: City apologizes 41 years after cops allowed Klan, Nazis...
"The city’s apology acknowledges “The police knew and chose to do nothing. In fact, they facilitated what we name now as a North American death squad.”
The most effective conservation is indigenous land management
American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.
What community land trusts can do for racial equity
"Community land trusts are a form of permanently affordable housing based on shared equity."
Racism is profitable
To end the Oppression Economy, our government must end the criminalization of people of color, end their political suppression, and curb runaway corporate power.
‘We must not lose focus’: Louisville to pay $12 million to...
"No amount of money can bring justice. It's time to move forward with the criminal charges that Breonna Taylor's family has called for."
Trump halts training concerning racism
Unlike Trump’s disavowal of his anti-veteran remarks, it will be difficult for him to disavow this memorandum.
Sheriff resigns after caught on tape using racial slurs
In addition to the racial slurs, the sheriff can also be heard verbally abusing a woman for several minutes.
‘Wild and timely’ report details infiltration of far-right militias and white...
"An especially harmful form of bias, which remains entrenched within law enforcement: explicit racism."
POPULAR
Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.