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Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration

The resolution endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle.

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Lessons from The American Anti-Slavery Almanac

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac was an attempt to bring awareness about slavery to nineteenth-century America.

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After Decades of Discrimination, Farm & Vineyard Workers Get Pesticide Protections

Farm workers will now have sweeping new protections from pesticides under new EPA rules.

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How the South Drives American Wages Down

A closer look at how the Southern slave labor system was rebooted and rolled out to the rest of America.

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See: A Brief History of the Mass Incarceration of Black Americans

One in every three African American men will be sent to prison in their lifetime.

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What Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common?

The Magna Carta is considered the foundation democracy and human rights. What’s the Great Charter’s connection to BlackLivesMatter?

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Why the Silence of Moderate Conservatives is Dangerous for Race Relations

The persistence of racism rests in no small part on the inability of moderate conservatives to recognize how it continues to affect the life chances of blacks.

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Hip-Hop Legend Boots Riley on #BlackLivesMatter & How His Cousin Was Acquitted in Cop Shooting

An interview with Boots Riley about his music, activism, and new book Tell Homeland Security—We Are the Bomb.

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Hailing “Authenticity and Integrity,” Cornel West Backs Bernie Sanders

“Now is the time for his prophetic voice to be heard across our crisis-ridden country,” declared the activist and intellectual.

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The 1965 Watts Riots Remembered

As LA marks the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots, Saul Gonzalez goes to the community and meets people with vivid memories of the unrest.