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Tim Wise: Dragging Racial Bias Into the Open
August 25, 2011“The bank of justice is bankrupt” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in DC 1963. Now, as a King Memorial is unveiled in DC., too little has changed. And the Obama team's race-neutral politics aren't helping, says racial justice scholar Tim Wise in this critical interview from September 2010.Evicting Rioters from Public Housing? David Cameron Meet Michelle Alexander
August 14, 2011Getting tough the US way has created a closed-system of mass incarceration in which ex felons are discriminated against in housing and employment -- for life. And yet that is precisely the system British Prime Minister David Cameron seems keen on in response to last week's riots.Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Jim Crow
July 30, 2011The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination that has brought Jim Crow with us into the age of Obama.No More Gag Rules; Let's Spark a Movement that's Pro-Voice!
July 25, 2011Talk may not heal all that ails us - and our politics - but it's certainly true that where abortion's concerned, we could do with less grandstanding about "gag rules" and more honest listening - and talk.Dorian Warren: The 'Walmart Way'
June 20, 2011"It's a targeting of workers' abilities to come together against big companies," says Columbia University professor Dorian Warren of the Walmart v. Duke case. The case was decided in favor of the company this week.Anika Rahman: Fighting the Womancession
May 12, 2011"I imagine a world in which my seven-year-old daughter doesn't say to me 'I can't be the president because I'm a girl.'" Anika Rahman was horrified and yet not surprised when her daughter expressed that sentiment. As the new CEO and president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika works to empower women to fight for their right to control their bodies and their lives.Paris Hatcher: "Culture of Life" is a Lie
May 5, 2011"We're supposed to love life, right? And protect mothers and ban abortion because abortion is about ending babies lives, right? But then we see cuts to WIC, [Women, Infants & Children benefits], we know women are being chained to beds to give birth," Paris Hatcher of SPARK Reproductive Justice points out. The entire idea pushed by conservatives that we are concerned with a "culture of life" is proved false by the way our society treats mothers--certain mothers, anyway.Got Docs: Two Americans
April 30, 2011A 9-year-old child faces down Sheriff Joe Arpaio in this week's featured documentary, Two Americans. Katherine Figueroa is a US citizen born to immigrant parents, and when Arpaio targets them for deportation, she becomes the center of a fight against the sheriff's plans. In Arizona, the immigration battle has its ground zero, and this documentary follows the people at the center of it all.Baratunde Thurston: Trump and the Birth Certificate
April 28, 2011Baratunde Thurston is usually one of our favorite comedians, but even he couldn't bring himself to laugh at the ugly spectacle of a privileged white man like Donald Trump congratulating himself in front of news cameras for getting Barack Obama to produce a "long-form" birth certificate. Baratunde recorded his feelings about that statement, and what it says to millions of African-Americans.
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