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Education, News

California Becomes First State in America to Approve Statewide High School Ethnic Studies Curriculum

While Republican-run states like Florida are proposing statewide educational curricula that will “expressly exclude” critical race theory—because a lot of white people in power are fragile AF and that fragility will undoubtedly extend to the classrooms in their states—California has adopted the nation’s first statewide ethnic studies high school curriculum, and one that doesn’t shy…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 19, 2021
Environmental Justice, Politics

Sen. Duckworth Introduces Bill Addressing Environmental Racism

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) introduced a bill Thursday that aims to provide health equity and climate justice for underserved communities and communities of color that have historically been impacted by environmental injustices. The Environmental Justice for All Act acknowledges that communities of color face public health challenges that make them much more susceptible to…

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

March 19, 2021
News, Race Matters

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Declares That His New Civics Education Proposal Will 'Expressly Exclude' Critical Race Theory

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is engaging in the relatively new conservative practice of pretending to know the first damn thing about critical race theory. On Wednesday, the governor of voter suppression and making pandemics worse unveiled his proposal for a civics education curriculum for Florida schools, which he said will “expressly exclude” critical race theory. Before…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 19, 2021
News

U.S. Intelligence Report Cites Domestic Terrorism as a Heightened Threat to National Security

A joint report released by U.S. intelligence agencies has cited domestic terrorism as a heightened threat to national security. Damn, who could have seen that coming? According to CBS News, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued an unclassified summary about the threat domestic terrorism poses to the county. The report was…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 18, 2021
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

BLM Los Angeles Co-Founder Appears to Respond to Criticism From Tamir Rice's Mother [Updated]

Updated, 11:19 a.m. EDT, Friday, March 19, 2021: This story has been re-edited and restructured to reflect that Melina Abdullah did not specifically reference anyone in her video where she called out critics of the Black Lives Matter movement. On Tuesday, The Root reported that Samaria Rice, Tamir Rice’s mother, criticized Until Freedom founder Tamika…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 18, 2021
Beauty + Style

House to Vote on Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act

Given the prolonged fuckery that defined the 1,460 days Trump was in office, it’s not surprising that things that shouldn’t have been a problem, became a problem. After a government shutdown derailed its renewal on 2019, the House is set to vote on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. According to CBS News, the Violence…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 17, 2021
News, Race Matters

Anti-Defamation League Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Surged in 2020. No Word on Whether Water Is Still Wet, Though

According to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League, white supremacist propaganda surged across America last year. The report did not include any updates as to whether or not water is still wet, if the sky still turns less blue when the weather is bad or whether today is, in fact, Wednesday. OK, so obviously…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 17, 2021
News, Race Matters

Watch Whiteness Work: A White Man Kills 6 Asian Women, and a White Cop Says He 'Had a Bad Day'

It’s already been a heartbreaking and devastatingly unrelenting year of blatant, dehumanizing and violent acts of racism. It’s echoed four years of ever-escalating incidents in the same vein, not to mention centuries of a state of rotten affairs that is as American as apple pie. I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and completely…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 17, 2021
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

The Movement for Black Lives Opposes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Here's Why the Movement Has a Point

The Movement for Black Lives—a coalition of 150 organizations from across the nation that was formed in 2014 and has been instrumental in organizing anti-racism protests since the Black Lives Matter movement began—has let it be known that it opposes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (pdf). Of course, the coalition doesn’t disapprove of…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 17, 2021
Politics

Texas Legislators Add to the Republican Party’s Ongoing Rush of Voter Suppression Bills

Republican-led state legislatures have openly been waging war on voting access in the wake of their presidential candidate’s defeat in the 2020 elections. Texas, which tried its very hardest during those elections to curb voters’ access to the ballot box, has now come through with its own slate of voter suppression legislation. On Monday, Republican…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 16, 2021