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Blind people can be racist, too, study says
A person may not have to "see color" to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people, make judgments about others based on their race, according to a new study. The findings come from interviews conducted in person and over the phone with 25 people who were either born blind or severely visually impaired, or who lost their sight as children or adults. A researcher asked the participants, most of whom lived in the northeast United States...
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Loser Kentucky Clerk’s 15 Minutes Of Martyrdom Just About Up
At the end of the day Monday, the Supreme Court issued a zero-sentence ruling, denying Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis's emergency appeal to please, don’t make her do marriage licenses for gays... By Evan Hurst.
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Where's The Outrage? #AllLivesMatter And The Zachary Hammond Case
Teenager Zachary Hammond was killed by South Carolina police this summer under questionable circumstances. His family says they're struggling to get attention from the media because they're white.
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Texas Is Two-Stepping All Over Voting Rights
It says it can make voting as difficult as it wants to, and any law that says otherwise is unconstitutional. By Richard L. Hasen.
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The Most Important Legacy of the Black Panthers
The initial furor that the Panthers caused cannot be overstated, and a political moment friendly to their expansive ten-point program has never existed.
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Steve Biko on Death and Police Violence
South African liberation leader Steven Biko meditates on his life, just months before his death on 12 Sept., 1977.
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National Review Writer Accidentally Gives The Game Away On Voter Suppression
What’s more, the bills that have been drafted are bad legislation. For example, they contain much that has nothing to do with the Supreme Court’s decision, and they themselves violate the Constitution by prohibiting practices that are not actually racially discriminatory but only have racially disproportionate effects.
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Labor law has been frozen for 60 years. Democrats are trying to crack it open.
A new bill would beef up penalties for retaliating against workers, which are now typically seen as just a speeding ticket.
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Elizabeth Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for
'None of us can ignore what is happening in this country,' Warren says. 'Black lives matter.'
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The Movement Lives in Ferguson
Teach For America, Black Leadership, and Disaster Capitalism. By Drew Franklin. (Oct. 9)
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The Enlightenment bull market and its decolonial future
“It should not be acceptable in the Twenty-First century, to speak or write or teach about the Enlightenment as having to do with the histories of rights, ideas and museums, friendship, humanitarianism, without at the same time mapping its direct involvement in the expansion of regimes of slavery, the destruction of other cultures and their values, and dehumanization...” By Richard Drayton.
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Black travelers used the Green Book to avoid racist towns and businesses in the Jim Crow era.
Before the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 — and decades before the internet and smart phones existed — black travelers relied on the “Green Book” to find hotels, restaurants and other establishments willing to accept their business.
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Sorry, kids, the 1st Amendment does protect 'hate speech'
recent poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech (in general and on campus) is a mixed bag. The survey by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale shows that 87% of respondents agreed with this statement: “There is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that I may disagree with and are different from my own.”
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How the South Won the Civil War
The Union may have been victorious in battle, but American politics has been Southernized. By Nicholas Lemann.
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How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk
A U.S. citizen can’t sue the government because his mistreatment happened overseas. By Patrick G. Eddington.
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[Glenn Greenwald] Interview with Charlie Savage on Obama’s War on Terror Legacy
Savage has become one of the most knowledgeable reporters chronicling the civil liberties and other controversies under the Obama administration.
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The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown
A conversation with author Sikivu Hutchinson. By Anita Little.
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51 arrested in protests after black man shot by Minneapolis police
Protesters shut down portion of I-94; mayor seeks federal investigation. [Autoplay]
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The [Ostensive] Birth And Death Of Privacy
3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images. By Greg Ferenstein.
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Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to terror
Republican who helped draft Patriot Act sees EU under similar pressures to 9/11. bY Benjamin Oreskes .
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