For b-boy bouiebaisse, DuBois's idea of abolition-democracy in 'Black Reconstruction' captures an essential truth: 'The fight for political equality cannot be separated from the fight for equality more broadly.'

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'The history of academic freedom for LGBTQ educators and LGBTQ issues in the curriculum shows us that progress is not linear and that old ploys resurface in new guises.'

by Karen Graves and Margaret A. Nash
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'Black women are nearly three times more likely to die due to childbirth than white women in Mississippi,' which also has the nation's highest rate of infant mortality. Despite the dangers, MS expects 5,000 more births yearly after the Dobbs ruling.

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Next month, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont voters will decide whether to remove language from their constitutions allowing slavery, or the forced labor of incarcerated people.

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Last week, New York governor Kathy Hochul and Byron Brown, mayor of Buffalo, announced the formation of the 'May 14th Memorial Commission, which will work to build a permanent memorial to honor the victims of the May 14 deadly mass shooting.'

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PEN America co-signs National Coalition Against Censorship's letter to BatesburgLeesvilleMS which raises serious #FirstAmendment concerns about the removal of Jason Reynolds News & Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You from the school library. ncac.org/news/south-car…

A word from Audre Lorde.

In America, people have been able to challenge their fellow citizens' right to vote since colonial times, writes Austin Sarat. But such challenges--which persist to the present day--have been historically used to disenfranchise Black people.

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Daniel Smith, one of the last children of a formerly enslaved person, died on Wednesday at 90. He was an Army medic and civil rights activist whose father was born into slavery in the 1860s. His life was “a reminder that slavery was not that long ago.”

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.Ibram X. Kendi's children's book isn't glossing over U.S. history.

'We are socialized to be ignorant about our past.'

How representative of the populace are the U.S. federal and state governments? The Emancipator endeavored to answer the question and gathered data about diversity in government. Read the graphics and maps as well as the analysis by Jeff Inglis here:

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The silence from too many about this this openly racist targeting of @tiffanydcross is appalling. The fact that the nation's most watched 'news' channel is allowed to spew open white supremacy night after night is a sign of a society in deep peril.Too much complicity all around.

'Black people aren’t necessarily turned off by conservative ideas,' Jemele Hill writes. 'But many of us are turned off by a party that seems to willingly embrace blatant racism and anti-Blackness.'

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“(The) poor, ethnic minorities, and women are very clearly the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change that we are already seeing today,' Dr. Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, said.

By C.L.R. James Baldwin
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today, as part of WaPo's Unaccountable project, we published an analysis of 5 years of non-fatal police shootings (in which the person shot survives) from 156 depts across the country -- a massive 2-year public records team effort (quick thread) washingtonpost.com/investigations…

A study examining over 7 million US births 'found higher death rates for infants born to Black women who used [IVF and other fertility treatments] than white women who did the same — a gap that is much wider than in babies born without those treatments.'

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Louisiana and Alabama Republicans want to limit the racial category of 'Black' to 'make it virtually impossible to use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge voting maps in the future.'

Racism hasn’t come from race; race has come from racism.
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Almost everyone I talk with is feeling overwhelmed – and it’s easy to understand why. Sincere question: How are you doing these days?