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Racism and Discrimination
Racism and Discrimination news and analysis from The Nation
October 13, 2020
Countless men, women, and children have been killed at the hands of US law enforcement officers. Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville police on March 13, 2020, and recently her killers walked away from their crime essentially without punishment. Justice failed her. The country failed her.
October 12, 2020
The franchise owner of the Detroit Pistons also owns a predatory prison telephone company. Shouldn’t that matter to the NBA?
October 12, 2020
For over a century, Italians have mythologized the genocidal explorer to gain access to American whiteness.
October 10, 2020
The death toll rises while Trump blusters.
October 9, 2020
The storm before the lull before the storm. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of October 5.
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October 9, 2020
Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic means 200,000+ deaths and devastating consequences for African American and Latinx communities.
October 9, 2020
New York’s “progressive” mayor is backing wealthy Manhattanites who want to show the homeless the door.
October 9, 2020
An antifa reporter swipes white.
October 9, 2020
California’s Prop 22 would make the misclassification of Uber and Lyft drivers permanent.
October 8, 2020
In Louisiana, at least 1,601 people are still incarcerated on the basis of a Jim Crow–era law allowing for conviction by a nonunanimous verdict.
