Answering Musk’s and Bezos’s Attacks on Workers’ Rights
With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion. Harold Meyerson April 9, 2024 Read the full article here The American Prospect
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Jane Elliott, anti-racism teacher, slams efforts to limit how race is taught in classrooms
Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Chandelis Duster April 5, 2024 Read the full article here...
Tampa students, community members march against diversity cutbacks
On April 1, about 15 students from the University of South Florida and community members marched in support of diversity and in opposition to cutbacks. Staff Writers April 8, 2024 Read the full article...
‘DEI mayor’ insults prove that unapologetic racism is back
Silly me: I wanted to believe the overt, in-your-face racism that I saw growing up in segregated South Carolina was ancient history. I was wrong. Eugene Robinson April 1, 2024 Read the full article...
University of Texas at Austin Fires 60 Staff Focused on Diversity and Inclusion
The layoffs were prompted by a diversity, equity, and inclusion ban that went into effect in January. Zane McNeill April 4, 2024 Read the full article here Truthout
Black rodeo culture has been overlooked. This photographer wants to change that
A horn blares, the stall gate opens, and out comes a raging 2,000-pound bull, bucking its hind legs wildly to knock a rodeo rider off its back. Kara Nelson March 29, 2024 Read the...
The Basic Fallacy In The White Racist GOP “Reparations” Argument
In a surprising decision, the nine member Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed to hear the Reparations case stemming from the 1921 Greenwood massacre, the community being better known at the time as Black Wall Street. Joseph “Murfster35” Murphy April 2,...
“CRIME HAS BEEN A EUPHEMISM FOR RACE”: ALAMEDA COUNTY’S REFORM DA REJECTS RECALL NARRATIVE
Bankrolled by real estate investors, a multimillion-dollar recall effort against Pamela Price launched just six months after she took office. Akela Lacy April 2, 2024 Read the full article here The Intercept
Wealthy Corporations Are Paying Their CEOs More Than They Pay in Taxes
Tesla, Ford, Netflix and T-Mobile are among scores of profitable U.S. firms that pay their top executives more than they pay in federal taxes. It’s a system that rewards the super rich and punishes...
Historic Boyle Heights victory against gentrification: East LA Planning Commission approves appeal against Tiao Corporation development
On March 13, organized tenants from El Apetito-Finessa Colectivo, neighborhood council members, and concerned residents appeared before a hearing at Ramona Hall Community Center in Highland Park. They were supporting an appeal against a...