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Activists celebrate decision to close ‘hellish’ St Louis jail
A glimpse of good news as activists in St. Lous celebrate the closing of a medium sized prison that had a reputation as a debtors’ jail.
Pac-12 football players threaten boycott
College Football players have increasingly recognized their ability to create change, both in their communities and their personal lives. This call for a boycott is the most recent example.
A new gentrification crisis
As the pandemic continues, plunging the nation into a recession, fear over evictions and the closing of small businesses is fueling concerns that gentrification may speed up.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Protests Planned in St. Louis re: 2014 Killing of Michael Brown
Protests are scheduled to happen in St. Louis, Missouri this Sunday in response to Prosecuting Attorney for the County, Wesley Bell’s recent announcement that he will not file criminal charges against former Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in 2014.
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death – to be published on the day of his funeral.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Peaceful Portland protests after federal withdrawal
Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown, agreed with the White House that the state police would take over responsibility for guarding the courthouse after weeks of escalating protests. She said that “Trump’s troops” were behaving like an occupying army in Portland and provoking unrest with heavy-handed tactics.
Read Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis
Former President Barack Obama delivers an impassioned call to action while eulogizing the late Rep. John Lewis.
Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back.
An intricate and personal look into environmental inequality centered on a Philadelphia neighborhood, this article examines the far reaching impact of pollution and climate crisis on Black America.
Milwaukee Said It First: Racism is a Public Health Crisis
The current global pandemic has renewed interest in Milwaukee’s recent decision to label racism a public health crisis.
‘I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired’
James E. Causey brilliantly examines the plight of Black America and Black Milwaukee specifically. Connecting the turmoil of today to sixty years worth of history.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Chicago removes Columbus statue
Chicago removed a Christopher Columbus statue from the city’s lakefront Grant Park before dawn Friday, a week after protesters tried to topple it.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – 45 Wisconsin Communities Protest
As video of George Floyd’s death spread across the US, protests followed in major cities — as well as unexpected small cities and tiny virtually all-white towns around Wisconsin.
How I Became a Police Abolitionist
When people dismiss Blacks who call for police abolition as not caring about victims or safety, they tend to forget that those same Black citizens ARE those victims, those survivors of violence. This article’s author, who is Black and a human rights lawyer, gives a detailed and nuanced perspective on this dilemma.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis
Of all the ways that John Lewis influenced American life and politics, his indelible impact on young people may be among the most enduring. From student activist to elder statesman, Lewis continually encouraged the nation’s youth to start “good trouble” — and modeled just how to do that.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Asheville, N.C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents
A passed resolution aims to address recent systemic issues of segregation and exclusion. It says Black people “have been excluded from full participation in the benefits of citizenship that include voting, employment, housing and health care.”
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History
15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks making the recent protests the largest movement in US history.
A Practical Guide to Defunding the Police
Police are supposed to protect and serve communities? For the Black Community and other POC, the police’s job seems to be keeping the community in line.
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
White Christians have used the Bible to support racial discrimination in all areas of life and the continuation of White supremacy.
‘The worshipping of whiteness’: why racist symbols persist in America
Symbols drive the stock market and wall street. Businesses and government agencies are rethinking some racial stereotypes and are making changes. Rebranding without policy changes is mere “window dressing.”
Wisconsin still has Confederate monuments and symbols despite its history as a progressive state. Here’s what they are.
Despite Wisconsin’s allegiance to the Union during the Civil War, its loyalties to the Union and the end of slavery were not as clear-cut as Wisconsinites might like to think.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Africa Declares Black Lives Matter
The global uprising against racist police brutality that ignited in the United States has spread to the Blackest continent of all, showing that the aftershocks of class struggle in imperialist countries are often felt in the regions they historically exploit and oppress.