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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Asheville, N.C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents
A passed resolution aims to address recent systemic issues of segregation and exclusion. It says Black people “have been excluded from full participation in the benefits of citizenship that include voting, employment, housing and health care.”
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History
15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks making the recent protests the largest movement in US history.
Read MoreA Practical Guide to Defunding the Police
Police are supposed to protect and serve communities? For the Black Community and other POC, the police’s job seems to be keeping the community in line.
Read MoreWhite Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
White Christians have used the Bible to support racial discrimination in all areas of life and the continuation of White supremacy.
Read More‘The worshipping of whiteness’: why racist symbols persist in America
Symbols drive the stock market and wall street. Businesses and government agencies are rethinking some racial stereotypes and are making changes. Rebranding without policy changes is mere “window dressing.”
Read MoreWisconsin still has Confederate monuments and symbols despite its history as a progressive state. Here’s what they are.
Despite Wisconsin’s allegiance to the Union during the Civil War, its loyalties to the Union and the end of slavery were not as clear-cut as Wisconsinites might like to think.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Africa Declares Black Lives Matter
The global uprising against racist police brutality that ignited in the United States has spread to the Blackest continent of all, showing that the aftershocks of class struggle in imperialist countries are often felt in the regions they historically exploit and oppress.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – How Black Lives Matter Protests Have Changed The World
In the month since George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police, the world has witness some of the most engaged, passionate and determined anti-racism protests and calls-to-action in recent memory.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Ghana’s message to African Americans is “Come home”
Ghana’s government is hoping to tap into the current mood of reflection and resistance to strengthen its pitch targeting people of African descent in the diaspora.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Lafayette Square: iconic for Trump presidency
With his triumphal stride through the square to historical St. John’s Episcopal Church, Trump had hoped to appear strong and dominant, and to dispel the narrative of him hiding in the secured White House bunker during evening protests outside. Demanding a show of force, he sought to make the nation’s capital a shining example of how to control the streets amid racial unrest.
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