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Racial Justice & Human Dignity / Foreign Policy

Justice For The Palestinians And Security For Israel

There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas. How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later?...

Bernie Sanders

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Ben Jealous On Authoritative Brutality And How To End Racism In America

The nation is in shock over the vicious beating death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police officers in Memphis, Tennessee. What’s even more perplexing is that the crime—all...

Delaina Dixon

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The Plan For Transforming Public Safety And Policing In The U.S.

Communities all across the country are facing public safety crises. Crime is rising in ways that leave many people feeling unsafe. At the same time, police violence and killings of unarmed...

Ben Jealous

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Whitewashing History And Suppressing Voters Go Hand In Hand

There’s been a lot of news about the Democratic legislators in Texas who fled the state to prevent Republicans from pushing through sweeping new voter suppression laws. Gov. Greg Abbott...

Ben Jealous

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D.C. Statehood A Voting Rights And Racial Justice Issue

Washington, D.C., has a higher percentage of Black residents than any state in the country, and they have no voting representation in Congress. This is systemic racism in action. It...

Ben Jealous

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Trump Is Standing In Our Way

Four years ago, when Donald Trump first ran for president, he urged Black people to support him, asking us, “What have you got to lose?” Four years later, we know...

Harry Belafonte

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Politicians Can Stop Police Killings

Millions of Americans have come out in big cities and small towns to protest the killings of unarmed civilians — often Black people — at the hands of law enforcement....

Ben Jealous

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What’s At Stake

The Republicans’ rush to fill the vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election is a terrible threat to Black people’s civil rights and the health of our...

Ben Jealous

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Cornel West On Uprising Against Racism

Following the killing of George Floyd, West and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor respond to the global uprising against racism and police violence. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist.

Amy Goodman

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Danny Glover On George Floyd

Danny Glover was recently a juror and mentor at Turkey’s virtual International Migration Film Festival, for which he took a deep dive into films tackling the plight of migrants around the...

Nick Vivarelli

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Cornel West Discusses This Moment Of ‘Escalating Consciousness’ And The Need For Radical Democracy

While the mainstream news media's attention has mostly moved on to other things, the George Floyd protests continue into a fourth week. The Black Lives Matter movement is gaining momentum, in both small majority-white...

Chauncey Devega