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‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention
March 10, 2021PBS program spotlights long-lost case of racist police violence.
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PRO Act passes House, Senate Republicans plan to kill it
March 10, 2021Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., declared: “This bill seeks to empower workers who build our country—and who are being oppressed within this plantation capitalist system.”
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Chicago joins list of U.S. cities denouncing Cuba blockade
March 9, 2021For 60 years, the United States has done everything within its power to destroy socialist Cuba. More U.S. cities are disagreeing with their government's campaign.
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For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
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American Rescue Act: Government of, by, and for the people
March 9, 2021Biden’s $1.9 trillion package, about to become law, breathes life into the idea that government can be a good and necessary thing.
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