Category: Hate Crime
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Life And Death Of Thomas Sankara, The Revolutionary President Of Burkina Faso Though his life and his presidency were cut short, Thomas Sankara’s legacy remains compelling to many living in Burkina Faso today. Sankara himself understood that, noting a week before he died: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.”…
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What About Black-on-black crime?
Black Lives Matter? I’ve heard it in person, online, and in the media. As a black man in America and being from Chicago. I’ve heard it from white, black, and all other races of people. “What about black-on-black crime?” When a black person is murdered or attacked by racist vigilantes or police officers. Obviously a hate crime.…
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Deacons for Defense
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today we will highlight historical black men who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the armed civil rights…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Afghans arrive at Croatian border amid violence, freezing weather As people like Ali approach, however, rights workers say the facilities and oversight have not kept pace. There aren’t enough beds to temporarily house asylum seekers, they warn. And migrants testify that they are being turned away — perhaps illegally — in an increasingly violent manner. …
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Random Thoughts on Black Men: Part III
In 2017, I wrote a couple of pieces titled “Random Thoughts on Black Men.” In those articles, I questioned why some brothas fear dogs, why some brothas wear socks with sandals, some brothas feel the need to Hotep, or our colorism towards darker-skinned black women. I’m revisiting these thoughts once again. Today, I will give three random thoughts on…
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The Truth About Reverse-Racism
“Black people yelling “racism!” White people yelling “reverse racism!” Chinese people yelling “sideways racism!” And the Indians ain’t yelling shit, ’cause they dead. So everybody bitching about how bad their people got it: nobody got it worse than the American Indian. Everyone needs to calm the fuck down.” – Chris Rock Turn on the Faux News…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Kyle Rittenhouse On Trial: Build A Movement To Defeat the Far-Right The capitalist legal system is never favorable terrain for winning the demands of working people, and this trial is no exception. Before the trial even began, Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled that the protesters Rittenhouse shot cannot be referred to as “victims” and should instead…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Cultural Revolutions If this theory strikes you as ridiculous, it is enough for now to bear in mind that no matter how different you believe China to be from the United States, there are lessons from Ai’s history that are uncomfortably easy to recognize: “If you try to understand your country,” he writes, “it’s enough…
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Joe Biden Hates Black People
A Not so Brief History of Joe Biden’s Racism I can hear it now; how can Joe Biden hate black people? He has a ‘black’ friend named Obeezy and Jimmy CoonBurn of South Carolina. History has shown us that the current figurehead of the U.S. Empire has a long history of racism that directly impacted…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US Border Agents Are Removing Haitian Migrants Using Horses and Whips “This is why your country’s shit, because you use your women for this,” one officer on horseback shouted at a group of Haitian women who were crossing the Rio Grande with bags of food, showed one report by Al Jazeera. #Haiti #borderpatrol #JoeBidensAmerica Five years on:…
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