Overlooked in the elections, Portland’s homeless are organising their own camps on their own terms, but fear evictions.
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From Bank Robber To Filmmaker, Darius Clark Monroe Tells A Personal Story In “Evolution Of A Criminal”
The director talks about what inspired him to revisit his past and how Spike Lee helped him make his autobiographical documentary.
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The Counted: People killed by police in the US
The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.
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A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy
Minnesota’s Twin Cities, one of the most prosperous areas in the nation, is reckoning with its inequities.
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In Ferguson, the Seeds of Trump’s Defeat
Trump may have risen on the wings of white backlash. But black Americans’ fierce resistance to a candidate they see as racist could spell his defeat.
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She has lost four sons to gun violence. No one has gone to prison. Do these black lives matter?
BY Petula Dvorak PUB The Washington Post [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]The fourth time around, it doesn’t get any easier to bury a son lost to gun violence.[/perfectpullquote]Phyllis Gray is 53 and tired. Tired of the calls, tired of the funerals, tired of T-shirts with the faces of four dead sons. Tired of no […]
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We Celebrate Black Culture One Minute, and Crush Black Lives The Next
Poet Claudia Rankine’s ‘genius grant’ win is a victory for African Americans. But there’s something devastating about the context in which it was awarded
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‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes
Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.
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Report: African Americans Have Been ‘Locked Out’ of Home Ownership
The homeownership rate for African Americans is now lower than the national homeownership rate was during the 1930s, as the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression.
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Predictable Schedules Are the New $15 Minimum Wage
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]PREDICTABLE SCHEDULES ARE THE NEW $15 MINIMUM WAGE BY Adam Chandler PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]Following San Francisco’s lead, Seattle and New York City have introduced initiatives to regularize workers’ hours.[/perfectpullquote]If it takes three examples to label something a fad, then San Francisco, […]
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