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Black Feminists Don’t Owe Hillary Clinton Their Support
Over the course of the last few days, I have been accused of both protecting and vilifying Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The reason for this is as simple as it is complex: People of color, especially black women, have to hold so many things in tension regarding race, gender and class that depending on…
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Think Green: Jill Stein on ‘Abusive’ Political Relationships, Restorative Justice and Bernie Sanders
Election cycle 2016 has kicked into high gear, and the unrelenting battle for political power between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has taken center stage. This political paradigm is not new. In a 1956 piece titled, “Why I Won’t Vote,” published in The Nation, W.E.B. Du Bois issued a statement many considered radical…
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How Does Hillary Clinton Really Feel About #BlackLivesMatter? Let’s Look at Lincoln, Her ‘Favorite’ President
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his rising lead in Iowa may have been the big draw for CNN’s Democratic Town Hall Monday night at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, but it was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who turned in a masterful performance. She expertly answered questions on domestic and foreign policy; she revealingly…
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Former OKC Officer Daniel Holtzclaw Sentenced to 263 Years in Prison to Be Served Consecutively
Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, has been sentenced to serve 263 years behind bars—the maximum sentence—for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one underage black girl. He will serve each year consecutively. During the sentencing hearing, Holtzclaw’s victims spoke out about how traumatic their experiences were. Janie Liggons, 59,…
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African American Policy Forum Demands Justice for Holtzclaw Survivors
Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape and sexual assault against seven black women and one underage black girl, will be sentenced Jan. 21. Holtzclaw was found not guilty of similarly horrific crimes against five black women who were not given even the possibility of justice.…
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#ReclaimMLK: My Apology to the ‘Most Dangerous Negro’ in America
I practiced for weeks, and when the big day came I was ready. My hair was styled in the way that Southern mamas do their daughters’ hair for special occasions—a pressed, puffy ponytail on top, with the rest hanging and curled beneath a large part, some ribbon probably lost to memory. I felt special in…
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Rape Culture: Why Prison Rape Needs to Be a Part of the Discussion
In less than two weeks, former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw will be sentenced for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one black child. And if this is to be a rare instance in which Lady Justice holds black women in her unfamiliar embrace, he will serve 263 years in prison. Justice, however—no…
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Tamir Rice Found Guilty of Being Young, Free and Black
Today a grand jury in Cleveland did what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter. That black children do not matter. That being young, black and free is a crime punishable immediately by death. For over a year, there has been a chorus of people demanding…
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Bernie Sanders Is Right: Sandra Bland Would Be Alive Today if She Were a White Woman
By deciding not to return any indictments in the death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland late Monday night, a Texas grand jury did not just make a decision; it made a declaration. It declared that Sandra Bland’s life did not matter. It declared that even though state Trooper Brian Encinia pulled Bland over on July 10,…
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St. Louis Cop Who Killed VonDerrit Myers Jr. Arrested, Resigns Under Suspicion of DWI
Jason Flanery, the St. Louis police officer who made headlines last fall for the killing of 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers Jr., resigned Saturday amid suspicions that he drove under the influence, STL Today reports. Flanery was off-duty and driving his patrol car after dawn Saturday when he crashed into a parked car near his home in St.…
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