Category: Hate Crime
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Confederate flag-bearing trucks park outside Michigan school “If the motive was to intimidate, that was wrong,” he said. “Trying to intimidate by race, color, creed, political belief, or religious belief is wrong. We have to respond to that in the right way so that the right message gets out.” #Michigan#MidWest#Confederate#Bigots The Palestinian women at the forefront…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump is reinvigorating the American left We don’t yet know what the effects of all this activism will be in the long run. But I have zero doubt that in years to come there will be Democratic mayors, governors, senators and maybe even a president or two who will say, “Why did I get involved…
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
America thinks that men who look #StephonClark or me, my nephews, friends, mentors, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers are monsters who deserve to be judged with death at the slightest so-called “threat,” real or imagined. To law enforcement or the state. Women who look like #AtatianaJefferson or my mother’s, sisters, nieces, my wife, cousins, aunties, and grandmothers…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Canada, You Can Now Use Bills With a Black Woman on Them While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have just unveiled a new $10 bill that features their own civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. #Canada#CivilRights#BlackGirlMagic#ViolaDesmond UN moves towards recognising human right…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
We will cut your throats’: The anatomy of Greece’s lynch mobs “Of course, fascists and racists are a threat to both Greeks and migrants. But it’s like the police don’t care because it’s just another report they have to file and that’s it.” #Greece#Racists#FarRight#BigotsHumanRights The disgusting thing that’s happening to women reporting sexual abuse in…
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On Why Black Lives Matter
In this article, I will discuss the not-so-surprisingly controversial slogan and hashtag that sparked a modern-day civil rights movement, #BlackLivesMatter. I will explain the merits of the movement and why it matters now more than ever. Detractors and Neo-conservatives (Shout out to Fox News) have tried to undermine the statement ‘black lives matter” with the…
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This Land Is Your Land
This land is your land, this land is my landFrom California to the New York islandFrom the Redwood Forest to the gulf stream watersThis land was made for you and meAs I went walking that ribbon of highwayI saw above me that endless skywayAnd saw below me that golden valleyThis land was made for you…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘We’ve seen the worst of humanity,’ Florida school official says as 17 killed in campus shooting A former student who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons opened fire at a South Florida high school Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding at least a dozen others, authorities said. The suspected gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, was quickly…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
A Murder Trial Stirs Emotions About Canada’s Relations With Its Indigenous Population “Saskatchewan is just beginning, I don’t even know if we have really started on reconciliation,” she said. “I’m not saying that Indian people deserve a break because we’ve been victimized. I’m saying that both sides have to take accountability and responsibility for what…
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Dive In
America’s racist history of separating white and black swimmers Making a Splash I was eleven years old, and it was summer intermission at W.E.B. DuBois elementary school. I had signed up for the swim lessons. It was the very first time I’d been in a swimming pool or tried my hand at swimming. The…
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