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Reading Time: 3 minutes This week, President Trump crossed another threshold. Not only did he insult a leader in the fight for racial justice and equality for all persons; not only did he savage the nations from which immigrants to this country have come; but now he has condemned the residents of an entire American city. Where will he go from here?
Make no mistake about it, words matter. And, Mr. Trump’s words are dangerous.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute This entrepreneur is helping women leaders break through the cannabis industry’s ‘grass ceiling,’ raising the bar for industry safety standards, and raking in the green along the way.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The man and his son were in their van Monday morning when they were blocked in by ICE agents, local news reports. Over the next few hours, community members brought the man and his son water, gasoline, food and other supplies until four hours into the siege the neighbors formed a human chain to shield him and his son as they entered their home. Deterred, ICE left.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve all wondered. History has never quit asking the question. How did the people of Germany stand by and let it happen? Why didn’t the stop the Nazis?
It’s not hard for me to imagine that now. It’s not hard for me to imagine how uncomfortable it was for them to watch the jews get loaded onto trains and taken away. It probably made them uneasy. So, they turned away and history tells their stories because they sat idly by, feeling uncomfortable, maybe even afraid, and did nothing.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Thousands of immigrant families have been swept up, separated and had members detained in ICE raids – many of them long-standing U.S. residents with no criminal record. Dozens of detainees have died or been assaulted while in custody. And federal authorities are even unable to locate 1,475 children who should have been responsibly placed in foster or protective care.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Of all Emancipation Day observances, Juneteenth falls closest to the summer solstice (this Friday, June 21), the longest day of the year, when the sun, at its zenith, defies the darkness in every state, including those once shadowed by slavery. By choosing to celebrate the last place in the South that freedom touched — reflecting the mystical glow of history and lore, memory and myth, as Ralph Ellison evoked in his posthumous novel, Juneteenth — we remember the shining promise of emancipation, along with the bloody path America took by delaying it and deferring fulfillment of those simple, unanticipating words in Gen. Granger’s original order No. 3: that “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The devil might be losing his edge.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is a veteran defender of civil rights and civil liberties with big ideas about how to serve her constituents in the Detroit area, usher in a new era of economic, social and racial justice in the United States, and promote peace and cooperation on the global stage. Unfortunately, since she arrived in Washington, she’s been targeted by Republican members of Congress, right-wing media, and even the president; they’ve crudely and dishonestly attacked Tlaib, seeking to marginalize the first Palestinian-American Muslim women ever to serve in the US House.
It’s been rough. But she is not backing down.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s how this multi-talented filmmaker is working with Issa Rae to create space for women of color in Hollywood.
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