Politics – Page 672 – People's World

Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy

July 23, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.

People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end

July 22, 2020 By Center for Public Integrity

Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...

Black Women’s Lives Matter

July 21, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

When Black women are killed, the ensuing protests—if they even occur—are tiny compared to when Black men are killed.

With secret police, Trump’s practicing fascism in the streets of our cities

July 20, 2020 By John Wojcik

The appearance of secret police on our streets is just one more in a long line of moves in a fascist direction.

We cannot have the police viewing the people as the enemy

July 17, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Systemic racism will not end because some city leaders participate in painting “Black Lives Matter.” Those are valuable gestures, but deeper social changes are necessary.