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Amid book bans and anti-CRT legislation, a Kentucky history teacher remembers Jim Crow
February 3, 2022I don’t remember the white kid’s name. But I remember what he said to me after my community college Kentucky history class one day: “My parents or grandparents never told me about any of this. We...
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U.S. raises war danger, sends 3,000 more troops to Europe
February 2, 2022The provocative deployment comes only one day after Putin said he wants negotiations to continue.
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Paltry donation gets Amazon billionaire Bezos’ name on D.C.’s MLK Library auditorium
February 2, 2022Community groups say the move is an insult to the civil rights leader’s legacy.
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Michigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society
February 1, 2022In a stage of capitalism where outsourcing and deindustrialization have devastated Michigan's manufacturing economy, small towns across the state have come to rely on a racist system of mass incarceration for their economic livelihood.
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Death by disinformation: Anti-vaxxers, GOP, fascists, white supremacists unite against public health
February 1, 2022Anti-vaxxers were once a fringe cause consisting of religious fundamentalists, libertarians, grifters, celebrities, and some liberals. Now, the extreme right wing has engulfed this movement, bringing tens of millions of followers.
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