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When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. Both the Pew Center and Ford agree this is good news, except for one thing. It's not true. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in 70 years and rising, and all the gaps between blacks and whites are further widening, not the other way around. The only thing that's changed is we now have a black face in the White House...
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison.
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.”
The collusion of powers wants to bury Julian alive in their war on the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and democracy.
