“Federal funding to help begin fixing the pipes at the heart of the Flint water crisis is shamefully overdue.”
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Black Wealth in the Age of Trump
The president-elect has pledged tax reform and job creation—policies that should theoretically help poor and minority Americans. Will they?
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The Audacity of Hopelessness
Throughout this election cycle I was confident of a Hillary Clinton victory because she is eminently qualified for the presidency and she ran a strong campaign.
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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans
They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.
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The U.S. is not a Post-racial Society
Race was undeniably a factor in this US election.
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Black clergy to monitor city polls
Black clergy have joined forces with others to organize volunteers to monitor polling stations in African-American communities on Election Day in Philadelphia.
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A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was reportedly set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump” on Tuesday night.
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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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Can a Museum Help America Heal?
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History has been in the making for over a decade—it was established back in 2003 and is the first museum dedicated to black history in America.
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How Facebook’s Ad Tool Fails to Protect Civil Rights
The company’s platform lets advertisers exclude people of certain races from seeing their content. That’s a serious problem when it comes to promotions such as housing, credit, and jobs.
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