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Rustin and Robinson

Bayard Rustin’s views on affirmative action: A critique

On February 28, 2019, The New York Times published a 6-minute multimedia video, narrated by Times contributing opinion writer Coleman Hughes, titled “The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative Action: How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?” Text accompanying the video states, Bayard Rustin was a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and thought reparations, and

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Restore My Voting Rights

Restoring Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Is Essential to Reparations

The most critical reparation issue is certainly financial, but I have been working this legislative session on the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions here in Washington state. Although we decided not to explicitly include restoration language in our testimony, disenfranchisement is clearly a reparation issue. The theft of suffrage, primarily as a racist policy, has been

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Restore My Voting Rights

Restoring Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Is Essential to Reparations

The most critical reparation issue is certainly financial, but I have been working this legislative session on the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions here in Washington state. Although we decided not to explicitly include restoration language in our testimony, disenfranchisement is clearly a reparation issue. The theft of suffrage, primarily as a racist policy, has been

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Vijay Prashad 2 19 on Venezuelan Chavistas

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

Vijay Prashad’s insightful post (“Notes from the Streets of Venezuela: The People Are Resilient in the Face of Intervention,” Feb. 26, 2019, Independent Media Institute via CommonDreams) reveals some vital on-the-ground realities in Venezuela today. It almost perfectly reflects my own interviews, interactions, and subsequent writings during my visit there a year or so ago. I was not mainly in

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Vijay Prashad 2 19 on Venezuelan Chavistas

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

Vijay Prashad’s insightful post (“Notes from the Streets of Venezuela: The People Are Resilient in the Face of Intervention,” Feb. 26, 2019, Independent Media Institute via CommonDreams) reveals some vital on-the-ground realities in Venezuela today. It almost perfectly reflects my own interviews, interactions, and subsequent writings during my visit there a year or so ago. I was not mainly in

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Slave trader ledger

Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over 31 million mortgages, investigators found that bankers regularly sidestep the Fair Housing Act. They are more likely to provide loans

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