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Opinion: NFL’s Hidden Hate Practices Help Explain Why It’s So Hard To End US Racism
The NFL that publicizes ending racism, presumably to sell its product, also deeply believes in the intellectual inferiority of Black players,
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Opinion: Why Labor Organization Should Be The Focus In The Fight For Democracy
We need to tell the story of unionization and collective action at least as much as we tell the story of resignation.
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Opinion: Right-Wing “Uncivil Disobedience†Distorts American Revolutionary Traditions And Unleashes Authoritarian Terror
We are not seeing acts of revolutionary uprising. What we are seeing is the rise of terrorism and authoritarianism.
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Opinion: African Americans Continue To Lead Insurrections For Democracy In America
In the summer of 1800, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved blacksmith, planned a slave insurrection in Richmond Virginia. Information about the rebellion was leaked, and it was thwarted. Prosser and 25 of his followers were taken captive and hanged. In 2007, in response to a 2006 request from the NAACP, then Virginia Governor  Tim Kaine issued…
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Pence Trashed For Quoting Dr. King to Justify Trump’s Racist Wall Plan
The completely tone-deaf Vice President of the United States Mike Pence yesterday quoted the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to defend Donald Trump’s racist efforts to build a wall along the southern border. Pence was on television on Sunday, just one day before the Martin Luther King federal holiday. In trying to…
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Trump Misses The Point Of MLK’s Life And Shows Why He’ll Be A Presidential Disaster
With a single tweet about Martin Luther King, Donald Trump revealed why he is going to be a disaster of a president.
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Republican Debate Sends The Message That Statesmen & Stateswomen Need Not Apply
Entitlements were under siege last night, as were any services to the poor. It wasn’t a debate; it was an homage to wealth and bigotry.
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White Religious Conservatives Feel Persecuted But They’re Not the Ones Found Hanging from Trees
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
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President Obama Puts The Words Of Martin Luther King Into Action On MLK Day
Leading by example, President Obama urged people to get involved in their community, writing “As one people, we will show when ordinary citizens come together to participate in the democracy we love, justice will not be denied.”
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Whitewashing The Past: How Conservatives Spurn MLK’s Legacy
MLK was a radical who wanted to eradicate poverty through a guaranteed income program, and he wanted to give reparations to black Americans.
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#OscarsSoWhite Trends On Twitter After ‘Selma’ Is Snubbed By Mostly White Academy Voters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year’s major Oscar nominations early Thursday morning and revealed that the civil rights film Selma had been passed over for all of the major awards other than Best Picture.
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Soon-To-Be Nevada Speaker Said Democrats Are The “Master” Of The “Simple Minded Darkies”
Assemblyman Ira Hansen was selected earlier this month to be Assembly Speaker once the new legislative session begins. He has a long history of making bigoted and offensive statements.
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Republican Denialism and the Ugly Truth About Income Inequality
“The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade” according to the World Economic Forum
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King Ended the Reign of Terror So Now It’s Time For the Truth About White Privilege
White people have largely ended violence. Now, it is time for telling the truth about privilege and facing what it means to lose it.
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Today It’s President Obama Fighting For the Opportunities That Dr. King Sought
Today it is President Obama fighting Republicans to give all Americans the opportunities Dr. King sought for people of color, and besides not acknowledging income inequality even exists, Republicans are redoubling their advocacy of Reagan policies.
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The New Paranoid Style In American Politics: Have You No Decency, Sir?
Ted and Rafael Cruz are just two more in a long line of American political paranoiacs. The list of conspiracy theories is long and often peculiar
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The Mainstream Media Continues to Ignore Rampant Republican Fueled Racism
Instead of a public outcry against blatant racism, main stream media failed to report the story on every evening newscast across the country.
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The New Terrorists: How Ordinary American Activists are Receiving This Dangerous Label
The trend to label ordinary American activists as domestic terrorists is alarming, bringing to new reasons to revisit the PATRIOT act.
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Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr Still Shouldn’t Be There
The problem remains that Detroiters are being ignored and held hostage by their own Governor Snyder, who flagrantly violated their voting rights.
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Gov. Snyder’s Emergency Manager Law May Violate Equal Protection Rights
The clock is ticking, and Detroit’s new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Detroit.
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Martin Luther King Did Not Agree With Gun Nuts and the NRA on the 2nd Amendment
The theory that Martin Luther King would have agreed with the NRA and other Second Amendment radicals is completely refuted by King’s comments on guns after JFK’s assassination.
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President Obama Must Use the Convention to Tell the Unvarnished Truth
Tuesday is the opening day of the Democratic Convention. The speakers must speak the truth. The Bush administration screwed everything up.
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Glenn Beck Claims He is Leading a Civil Rights Movement like MLK
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck continued to warp the legacy of the civil rights movement in the United States by claiming that his 9/12 Project and the angry white Tea Party are the next phase of the civil rights movement. Beck read the civil rights movement commitment card to audience, then said, “It looks to me like the next phase of the 9/12 Project.”