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“We’ve been thinking about a world without policing, a world where we can actually survive”: A conversation with Stickii and Shae Shae
In Part I of this conversation, we heard from Stickii and Shae Shae about their experiences with police growing up in Springfield, MA and what got them into the streets protesting from a young age. Now, ...
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The Forward Pass – An International Recollection on Professional Sport Protest from the Bottom Up
The national insurgency against police brutality and murders has finally infiltrated the elevated ether of professional sports in America, quite spectacularly too. It is both surprising and not so at the same time. I want to ...
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Nothing Less Than Total Repudiation
White America is reeling from being exposed to the truth. We are like the children of a mobster who wake up to the headlines that our dear father, who brought us home candy and protected us ...
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What Are White Workers Thinking? An Interview with Timothy Lombardo
Timothy Lombardo is a native of Northeast Philadelphia and the author of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics. We caught up with him to discuss the post-war dynamics that gave rise to blue-collar conservatism, ...
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Police Rebellion, Then and Now
Jarrod: A recent New York Times headline sums it up well: “Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force.” Even as America’s cult of cop worship implodes before our eyes, it is clear ...
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The African Blood Brotherhood and The Short-Lived Civil War in Tulsa
For several weeks now crews from around the country have been in Tulsa with highly-specialized “ground-penetrating radar” searching for “mass graves” associated with the events of 1921. I and a few others doubted very much if ...
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Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform. At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell. WOW!! I happened to ...
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Border Radios
With fears of an invasion which would cause disease outbreaks, school over-crowding, crime and wage deflation, the borders of California were sealed in 1936. In the preceding years of Depression California had already absorbed hundreds of ...
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Unnamed Harlem resident finds old letter
In the dusty book shelves of an unnamed Harlem resident’s basement we uncovered this letter written in 1912 from the man later known as Ho Chi Minh to his father back home. Dearest father, I wanted ...
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Letter from Garibaldi to Lincoln
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On this date, 155 years ago (August 6, 1863): “In the midst of your titanic struggle, permit me, as another among the free children of Columbus, to send you a word of greeting and admiration for ...
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