2021: Half of America facing poverty
For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.
Protesting where it hurts the super-rich
That 60% of Americans whose wealth is matched by a roomful of billionaires should be working together to fight economic injustice.
‘What to the slave is the 4th of July?’: James Earl Jones reads Frederick...
On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.”
Confronting my white privilege. A film director’s journey. By Frances Causey
Ongoing protests to end systemic racism rooted in the nation’s 400 year legacy of white supremacy...
Facebook is not playing fair
The problem with Facebook is that it established so-called “Community Standards,” and it uses these “standards” to censor posts by its members and then block them for a few days or a month from further posting.
Racism: Are we all prejudice?
Prejudice then is a form of conditioning; it is discrimination or bias unconsciously expressed in varying degrees, fueling hurtful destructive patterns of behavior and social division.
P. G. T. Beauregard
A white Confederate general can learn from experience that it does society better to recognize the equality of minority races.
2020: The year anti-fascists became terrorists
When police in Buffalo pushed an elderly man to the ground during a Black Lives Matter protest, cracking his skull in the process, the president went on Twitter to rhetorically ask whether the injured man was, in fact, part of “Antifa”.
Pandemic of hate: Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19
When Trump calls coronavirus the ‘China Virus’ he INTENTIONALLY stirs up racism against Asian Americans.
Who benefits from racism?
Throughout history, the rich have used racism to divide people and thereby entrench themselves.