A year ago this week, a white man named Garry from North Carolina called C-SPAN to talk to a black guest about his racial prejudices.
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Forget Bernie Bros: Meet the Young People of Color Leading the Country’s Socialist Revolution | Splinter
But erasing people of color from the narrative is deeply ahistoric at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.
View MoreSupreme Court Ruling On Ohio Voter Purge Will Have Long-Range Impact on Black Votes – Atlanta Black Star
The United States Supreme Court’s decision to review a challenge to Ohio’s voters roll purge policy brings the question of voter discrimination to the forefront again.
View MoreBlack Aboriginal Leaders Reject Symbolic Recognition In the Australian Constitution, Instead Demand Their Land Back – Atlanta Black Star
May 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Australian Referendum, in which Australians voted to include Black people — known as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — in the national census and to allow the government to make laws for them.
View MoreWyclef Jean to anti-Trump celebs: ‘Be very careful’ – Politico
‘I feel that we’re at a time now where your voice should be louder than it’s ever been,’ the music star tells POLITICO.
View MoreThe Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial – Hyperallergic
This year’s biennial was a mash-up of claims and interests that played out in four exhibitions grouped under one umbrella.
View More‘It Could Have Been Me’: The 1983 Death Of A NYC Graffiti Artist – Code Switch
“It could have been me. It could have been me.”
View MoreWisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) – The Nation
A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters.
View MoreMeet the Democrat who wants to be America’s first black female governor – The Guardian
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s state house minority leader, hopes to make history – and her track record shows that pushing boundaries is what she does best.
View MoreMaxine Waters’ battle against powerful white men began when Eula Love was killed in 1979 – Mic
For Maxine Waters and her South Los Angeles constituents, Eula Love’s death was a tipping point.
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