Jessicah Pierre
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jessicah Pierre
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Opinion
MLK’s final campaign lives on: The war against racism and poverty
January 17, 2020Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
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Opinion
400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide
August 27, 2019I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.
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Opinion
Trump’s Christmas gift to Haitian earthquake refugees: Deportation
December 15, 2017For 60,000 Haitian immigrants, this holiday season is filled with fear and uncertainty.
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News
Mass incarceration is a women’s issue, too
November 6, 2017The United States is one of the top incarcerators of women in the world, which breaks up families and endangers children.
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Opinion
Honor Juneteenth by closing the racial economic divide
June 19, 2017Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.
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