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The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League
In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
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Where do ideas come from? And how can they change?
Alex Snowdon explains the Marxist view of how ideas develop and how socialists seek to change the world.
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How to New York Times-Proof Mamdani’s Playbook: Turning Coalition Specifics into Fiscal Possibilities
In a recent video recapping his primary victory in Queens, Zohran Mamdani did something almost radical for today’s political landscape: he cut through the usual Beltway euphemisms and mapped out the varied, living elements of the coalition that won. Most postmortems stay tangled in polite code. We get anxious talk of “electability,” “swing voters,” whether […]
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Coalbrook: The Worst Mining Disaster in Africa
On the morning of January 21, 1960, 431 black and six white coal miners were entombed in a sudden collapse at Clydesdale Collieries near Coalbrook in Sasolburg, Free State Province.[1] The first rockfall took place at about 4:30 p.m. No one was killed or severely injured. While the rock still creaked and split, many of […]
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From celebration to cancellation: How Juneteenth became a casualty of America’s reactionary turn
The holiday’s public recognition has fallen victim to‘anti-woke’ backlash, leading to a quiet retreat from public memory.
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Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice.
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Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’
Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.
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Charles Rangel and the end of Black politics
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
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Five years after the murder of George Floyd: The fight for Black liberation continues
It has been five years since police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
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Anti-apartheid activism and the discipline of geography
Geographers working in South African universities in the 1980s were part of a segregated system in which institutions were designated for each of the so-called ‘racial groups’: Black African (also divided further by language group), Coloured, Indian, and White.
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People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
To defeat Trump’s agenda, we need a movement that unites all who can be united, and is ready to stand up and fight back. If the pardon rumors become reality, meet us in the streets.
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AI chatbot Grok can’t stop talking about ‘white genocide’, admits it’s by design
Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.
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America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising
Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.
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Trump issues executive order requiring English proficiency for truckers, escalating attacks on immigrant workers
In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.
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What can be passed down
How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.
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‘Racism and ‘Free Speech’’ by Anshuman A Mondal, ’The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life’ by Sophia Rosenfeld reviewed by Guy Lancaster
‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.
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“The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children
American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.
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Confiscation, reparations and reconstruction’s solution to the “Elon Musk problem”
In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.
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Understanding the life and work of James Baldwin: In conversation with Colm Tóibín
The Irish author talks about his new book on James Baldwin, his influences, and his enduring legacy.
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Trump, white supremacy and capitalism: The enemies of Black liberation
The working class is facing a period of grave instability–faced with the challenge of managing rising prices of basic goods, stagnant or even deflated wages, and a future that is increasingly insecure in more ways than one.