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Reading Time: 3 minutes Police unions are uniquely powerful, as Rafi Schwartz explained for Mic, which makes them a daunting hurdle on the path to reform. They are able to lobby mayors, city council members, county commissioners, and members of police oversight boards to define their own terms of employment and standards of police practice.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes For many American workers, how they do their jobs dramatically changed with the spread of COVID-19. With uncertainty abound, now’s a good time to take stock of your physical and mental health and familiarize yourself with the resources available from your employer.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you desire to ally, this is one of the ways that you can effectively combat systemic racism
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How this shit is even allowed to be on the air without disclaimers is beyond me but this feels like the equivalent of calling WWE interviewers journalists and the muscular gymnastics guys they interview wrestlers.
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Reading Time: 9 minutes This year, Juneteenth will be commemorated with protests, marches, a general workers strike, and opportunities for healing and joy across the country. It will also be celebrated as it has been for decades, with cookouts and parades, as well as church gatherings and spirituals, keeping in touch with the original tradition.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes One of the reasons that we got here to this moment is because of a lack of empathy. It’s also obviously because of selfishness and greed and racism and fear and a whole long list of other stuff. But empathy plays a part.
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Reading Time: 9 minutes What if I keep seeing a succession of unarmed black and brown people struck down on videos? What if one day it’s someone I know — or me?
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Reading Time: 10 minutes America’s kids are watching.
They’ve seen the killing of George Floyd and other scenes of police violence against black people play across their TV screens again and again, as Kelly Glass reports at Vox. They see the thousands of people in the streets every day protesting that violence — sometimes, the kids are part of the protests.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes While Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
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