We need to change the way we think about housing. Like access to education and health, having a home is a human right.
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Three California Mosques Receive Letters Praising Trump, Threatening Genocide
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for police to increase protection of mosques after at least three in California received identical handwritten letters that vow President-elect Donald Trump will “do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.”
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Unlike other Latinos, about half of Cuban voters in Florida backed Trump
In Florida, Cubans were about twice as likely as non-Cuban Latinos to vote for Donald Trump.
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Fidel Castro Put Gay Men in Labor Camps. His Niece Mariela Is Leading Cuba’s LGBTQ Revolution.
What does it mean to be a revolutionary?
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In D.C., White Families Are on Average 81 Times Richer Than Black Ones
Other major cities aren’t much better.
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No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along
Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his timely black history PBS series: ‘We have to be vigilant’
This year has seen a number of race-focused documentaries that seem especially relevant following a historically contentious election.
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here: Cornel West
Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
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#BuyBlack: 25 Black Businesses to Support on Black Friday | OkayAfrica
This is our fifth gift guide in the run-up to the holidays. Keep checking for more lists of great African products here. And for more ideas check out the Okayafrica Shop.
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HUD Is Essential to the Fight Against Poverty. Ben Carson Will Lobotomize It.
“…The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency.”
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