racism
California’s new A.G. announces ‘Racial Justice Bureau’ to combat hate surge
May 14, 2021State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California is "in a full-on state of crisis, a full-on state of emergency when it comes to hate violence against the Asian Pacific Islander community."
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Survivors of racist police killings and 170 groups ask for UN probe
May 12, 2021“It needs to be said that the police are still killing us,” a May 7th statement from the Communist Party's African-American Equality Commission concluded.
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Lawyers for killer cop Chauvin trying to overturn his guilty verdict
May 6, 2021They attack both the jury and the judge.
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Republicans’ Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws spark fight for democracy
May 4, 2021The more people vote, the more progressive the elected representatives. Republicans know they cannot win without these laws.
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‘Predictive policing’ is a techno-tool of white supremacy
April 30, 2021Predictive policing is based on the idea that data (say, high levels of unemployment, racism, poverty, and poor education) can predict crime.
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