Lessons for Lawmen
Recent calls to ‘Defund the police’, in the interest of social justice, have been misunderstood; and this, in part, goes to explain the refusal of City Councils to meet those demands. That we should...
View ArticleOn Medicare and Medicaid’s 55th Birthday, Let’s Expand Benefits—Not Cut Them,...
By Nancy J. AltmanThis article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. This...
View ArticleCoViD-19 and spirituality
I think Trump has really dropped the ball regarding CoViD-19. Not only are more people dying avoidably and the economy has to suffer longer, but we are not learning a valuable lesson from the...
View ArticleCrawfish guestworkers: 'We went to the hospital for COVID-19 treatment, and...
By Maribel Hernandez and Reyna AlvarezLike most of our coworkers, we spend about five months every year peeling crawfish in Louisiana. The majority of us are single mothers from northern Mexico on H-2B...
View ArticleAlliance pushes for stronger hate crime laws
“BY RICK NATHANSON / JOURNAL STAFF WRITERPublished: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 at 10:31pmUpdated: Sunday, August 9th, 2020 at 12:05am Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal the full article is here→ The...
View ArticleThe First Sin of Knowledge
Somewhat to my own surprise, I spend time on twitter, and since the current upsurge in conversations around systemic racism in the United States, I’ve seen a particular take on the dialogue that is...
View ArticleThe Inevitable Whitelash Against BLM Has Begun
Caught this story on The Nation and felt compelled to repost it here, without comment. As Black people fight for our lives, white supremacists reach for their guns—and white allies go...
View ArticleA Modern Day Civil War
I am sure I am not the only one that has wondered what a modern day civil war would look like. Tensions have been rising for many years in America as we struggle for a more perfect union. The peaceful...
View ArticleHow brASS Burlesque fuses sexy, silly performance art with social justice
This story is part of Prism's series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here.by jazabel jade, exHOTic other, and Miss AuroraBoobRealisAt a time like this, BIPOC women and...
View ArticleWitnesses recall NYPD officers unmasked 'screaming in people’s faces' as they...
Nationwide protests have continued for months in efforts to spread awareness of consistent police brutality and racial injustice in the country. Following the heartbreaking grand jury decision to not...
View ArticleAdvocates Call on Officials to Stop Voter Intimidation and Election Violence,...
Voting Advocates Call on Officials to Do More to Stop Voter Intimidation and Election ViolenceAs right-wing militants have the president’s blessing to behave menacingly, voting rights groups are asking...
View ArticleLeBron James
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View ArticleLast night helped define where Democratic leadership can go, in some really...
It’s all over but the cheating.I am going to have some fun today. My themes about the “Poltics of the Possible” are taking off, and I love it. And amazingly, Trump has helped, and his cronies have...
View ArticleDo liberals really want to take away everyone’s meat?
“They want us to be just like California,” Ted Cruz exclaims of Texas liberals, “right down to tofu and silicon and dyed hair!” A certain disgraced conservative TV pastor invokes firearms when...
View ArticleIn tears because our national nightmare is about to end, We ABSOLUTELY WILL...
We have had nearly 100 million votes received already before voting on election day proper started. In 2016 only 47 million votes were cast early and 90 million votes were cast on election day. We will...
View ArticleLooking Back at the Democrats’ Political Strategies in Florida and Georgia,...
There’s a lot to learn from the approach of the Biden campaign and its allies.By Steven RosenfeldThis article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.One day after...
View ArticleAt the age of 15, Esperanza Spalding picked up a bass. She's never put it down
After watching Sen. Kamala Harris become Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, my heartstrings reverberated with joy. When thinking about this edition of #BlackMusicSunday, which was already scheduled to...
View ArticleSome observations and interpretations of this past election
I made a bunch of observations and interpretations of data here which at first were not organized by theme. I just wrote them randomly as they occurred to me. I, then, more or less organized them by...
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What's Your Why to Fight for Racial Justice?
This is a guest post from Ella Baker Center interns, Darice Wong and Pearis Tavares. For Giving Tuesday, we started the #WhatsYourY campaign centered on Ella Baker Center’s amazing interns and why they...
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Needed: total reorganization of DHS starting with ICE and CBP
Actually, if ICE and CBP were doing their job, they wouldn’t be heard of/from, but they insist on contradicting even the most conservative of myths about America. And then there’s the detention...
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