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In this year’s march, commemorating the March on Washington 60 years ago, apart from voting rights and police reform, other issues that the marchers are raising are increased antisemitic hate crimes, and attacks on Asian American communities. Also: “60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists”.
The author seeks to unearth the history of slave trade in Britain, and examines the institutions that granted it political, social and economic legitimacy. He also gives a spirited call for reparations.
We need a little history and political context for affirmative action in higher education in this country (the USA), so we can better grasp what this Supreme Court ruling banning the use of race as a consideration in college admissions really means.
While outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery.
There’s another “me too” story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
April 9 marks the US activist-singer’s 125th birth anniversary. Paul Robeson, son of a formerly enslaved man, was nothing less than amazing. Two articles.
Davis says Malcolm X’s legacy is still vital to understanding racism, power and justice in the United States and beyond.
While Mendel’s work is central to modern genetics, it also set off the dark side with which genetics has been inextricably linked: eugenics and racism. Eugenics has been used to argue the superiority of the elite, dominant races, and in India, a “scientific” justification for the caste system as well.
Science showed decades ago that race was a fiction. Has that changed anything?
Every child in the States is taught that in 1621, Pilgrims and the ‘Indians’ sat down and had a ‘peaceful’ meal. The bloody slaughter that the Indigenous people faced from the newcomers soon after is forgotten. US Indigenous organiser Maria Whitehorse and her group are seeking to correct this unfair history.
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