US Politics

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Democrats Deploy “Diversity” to Mask Renewed War and Austerity
15 Dec 2020
The “new regime is just a return to the old regime of endless austerity and war,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro, an organizer with the Philadelphia Saturday Free Schoo
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Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues
15 Dec 2020
President-elect Joe Biden “is not even giving a nod and a wink” to Medicare for All, despite its huge popularity among both Democrats and Republicans, said Dr Margaret Flowers, dir
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Boxing is a Window on US Race and Class Pathologies
15 Dec 2020
Black excellence in boxing can be traced to the “battle royals” that pitted slaves against each other for the entertainment of white masters, said University of Houston professor Gerald Hor
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Black Masses Not Yet Sold on Defunding the Police
08 Dec 2020
Lawrence Grandpre, research director for the Baltimore-based activist organization “Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle,” agrees in principle with the demand for defunding police but d
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Reparations Not Yet a “Mainstream” Demand
08 Dec 2020
Reparations “hasn’t reached the point where there’s really a discussion among white politicians” on the merits of the issue, said Zuri Arman Kent-Smith, a writer and activist with
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Beware Biden-Harris Neoliberalism
08 Dec 2020
Corporate Democrats may be more dangerous than overt racists, because neoliberals “cloak themselves in the rhetoric of ‘racial uplift,’” said Rebecca Ann Wilcox, a community organi
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 30, 2020
01 Dec 2020
Racist Imperialism Killed Millions in Congo
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Half of Brazil’s Black “Quilombos” Denied State Recognition
01 Dec 2020
The autonomous settlements established by Black and indigenous Brazilians to escape slavery and ongoing oppression number between 3,000 and 5,000, “but the Brazilian government only recognizes abou
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Racism and Violence Against Blacks Endemic to US
01 Dec 2020
Critical Race Theory holds that racism is endemic to US society, while Afropessimism and Social Death “suggests that, regardless of what Black bodies do, [they] will experience gratuitous violence,
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Racist Imperialism Killed Millions in Congo
01 Dec 2020
“More than 5.4 million died in the DRC as a direct or indirect consequence of the ongoing racist, neocolonial policy imposed on the Congolese population in an attempt to dismantle the Congo,” said