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“Paul Ryan Is Victim-Blaming Men Now”: No, Men Don’t Lack A “Culture Of...
Last week Paul Ryan provoked an outcry when he claimed that poverty in America was in large part a product of a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working, just...
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“What White Folks Get Wrong About White Privilege”: For White People, Society...
Tal Fortgang, a Princeton undergraduate, has become something of a hero on the right for bravely standing up for embattled whites everywhere who have been told to “check their privilege” when...
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“Excessive Police Violence Must End”: Out of Control, Some Things Haven’t...
A Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in 1968, awakening now, would see TV news footage that was achingly familiar: An American city under siege as mostly white police officers, firing tear gas, face off...
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“A New Test For Conservatives On Ferguson”: We All Should Care About The...
Just when we thought the news out of Ferguson, MO was getting more hopeful, the Ferguson PD, apparently trying to confirm their reputation as America’s worst police department, has now endeavored to...
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“What’s Old Is New Again In Ferguson”: The Tensions In Missouri Are Part Of A...
Ferguson, Missouri, has opened our eyes to old and new unpleasant truths about the U.S. of A. First, a small Southern town burning over race – that’s a story we know by heart. American history and...
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“Adding Insult To Injury”: First Mike Brown, Then Eric Garner; Prosecutors...
A New York City man who was at most guilty of selling loose cigarettes on the street was tackled and placed in a chokehold by a police officer in late August. The man, Eric Garner, protested that he...
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“15 Reasons America’s Police Are So Brutal”: An Embedded Culture, Tamir Rice...
Handcuffed teenagers beaten bloody with guns. Unarmed people shot and killed in their cars. Cops firing guns carelessly into busy streets. Mentally ill people tasered in ambulances. Supervisors...
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“Our National Legacy”: North Charleston Murder Stems From American Tradition
An unarmed man shot in the back. An innocent man released after serving 30 years on death row. The centennial of Billie Holiday’s birth. These are the stories that emanated from my radio yesterday, and...
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“Bill O’Reilly Will Never Pay”: Why Domestic Abuse Allegations Won’t Faze Fox...
It should come as no surprise that Fox News didn’t mention the latest awful allegations about Bill O’Reilly’s behavior toward women on Monday night. But given the ugliness of the reports – Gawker says...
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“A Battle Cry Among Some In The Academy”: My Police Academy Teaches The ‘War...
The trumpets of the thin blue line and right-wing news sources have been sounding, piping out warnings of a “War on Police.” You may have heard it on talk radio, seen it on Fox News or even read it in...
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“A Real And Tangible Atrocity”: The Groveland Four, Justice Denied For 66...
It was the road sign that made it real. Josh Venkataraman was returning to the University of Florida, where he is a senior, from Orlando earlier this year when he saw it. “Groveland,” it said. He had...
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“A Shadow Justice System For Police Officers”: Freddie Gray’s Killer Cops Are...
Officer Caesar Goodson, Jr. is a free man. A year after 25-year-old Freddie Gray’s life came to an end after he fell into a coma while in the back of a Baltimore police van and the city erupted,...
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“We’re Not Post-Racial Yet”: The Demons Of Our Racist Past Still Haunt Us
So we’re not post-racial yet. Instead, we are preoccupied with race, chafing along the color line, possessed of wildly divergent views of authority, justice and equality. According to a New York...
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“Cop Killers Serve No Cause”: It’s Getting To The Point Where No Lives Matter
How can anyone ever explain this to Mason? He’s only 4 months old, so that moment still lies years in the future. Still, at some point, too soon, he will ask the inevitable questions, and someone will...
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