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Today 4:12 pm
This New Deal Agency Promoted Civil Rights. Trump Wants to Kill It.
After civil-rights leader A. Phillip Randolph threatened to lead a march on Washington, FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Committee.
Waleed Shahid
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Yesterday 10:00 am
How an Anti-Racist Lawsuit Empowered the Most Racist Brand in Sports
Charting a new strategy to get Washington’s football team to change the name.
Dave Zirin
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June 22, 2017
Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian
And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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June 21, 2017
Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
An expert on their secretive world explains how these shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion—and undermine democratic government.
Chuck Collins
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June 20, 2017
Introducing ‘Take Action Now,’ a New Tool to Help You Connect to the Resistance
Every Tuesday, “Take Action Now” will feature three actions involving time commitments ranging from five minutes to many days.
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June 20, 2017
The Government Created This Zika Vaccine. Why Should Big Pharma Reap the Profits?
Lawmakers are concerned that giving a drug company a monopoly on the promising vaccine could make it unaffordable.
Richard Eskow
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June 19, 2017
Inside the Fight to Take Down the Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
Activists are taking on their city’s racist legacy—and winning.
Collier Meyerson
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June 16, 2017
The Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline Is Not Over. Here’s How You Can Join
The water protectors and their allies have been taking aim at the project in a way that the companies behind it are sure to notice: by hitting them in their pocketbooks.
Skanda Kadirgamar
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June 16, 2017
Systemic Racism Couldn’t Care Less About Your Respectability Politics
What could not save Philando Castile, Jordan Edwards or Richard Collins III is the same thing that I have been told would save me, a young black college student: respectability.
Shekinah Mondoua
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June 15, 2017
Republican Legislators Want You to Think Confederate Monuments Aren’t Political
Under the guise of historical preservation, Southern states have passed laws preventing the removal of Confederate symbols.
Jonathan S. Blake