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    Jan 15, 2023
    “72% of Americans disapproved of #MLK when he was shot—as well as 50% of Black Americans. We should never forget that. We all love him now that the worms got his body. But when he was speaking the truth, he was radically unsettling folk.” — Cornel West
    Brother Martin Was a Blues Man
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    Sep 8, 2019
    "We have got to create community. We have got to make sure that I care about you and you care about me. That makes us less likely to start scapegoating minorities, because that’s what demagogues feed upon." Happy birthday, #Bernie! 🎂 He turns 78 today. bostonreview.net/politics-podca…
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    Nov 18, 2018
    "Life is not inherently absurd—its absurdities are produced by capitalism, racism, and patriarchy." bostonreview.net/race-literatur…
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    Nov 3, 2019
    #OnThisDay in 1979, members of the KKK and American Nazi Party murdered five labor organizers in broad daylight. Forty years later, massacre survivor Rosalyn Pelles talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful: bostonreview.net/race/rosalyn-p…
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    Dec 23, 2017
    Robin Kelley: “I see value in putting Coates’s and West’s perspectives in dialogue. West believes that we can win. Coates is concerned that we survive. Our movements have had to do both—find ways to survive and dare to win.”
    Coates and West in Jackson
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    Apr 29, 2024
    "You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment," writes Robin D. G. Kelley in a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik:
    Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik
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    Aug 26, 2019
    Before Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail, she was charged a $5,000 bail, which she could not afford. After Tamir Rice was murdered by police, the city of Cleveland billed the Rice family for the dead child's last ambulance ride.
    Black AfterLives Matter
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    Dec 2, 2018
    The media’s use of “racially charged” instead of "racist" suggests that racism is normal, non-pathological, and within the range of mainstream political disagreement. bostonreview.net/race/lawrence-…
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    Feb 1, 2023
    Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) is among the Black scholars recently dropped from an AP African American studies course that has faced opposition from FL Gov. #RonDeSantis. Read her work and that of other purged scholars here:
    The Black Scholars Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Want Students to Read
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    Jan 27, 2020
    "Howard Zinn would not fetishize Trump. He would offer an analysis of an imperial system that’s tied to predatory capitalism, white supremacy, and male supremacy, a perspective we badly need today." —@CornelWest Zinn died #OnThisDay 10 years ago. bostonreview.net/race-politics/…
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    Jul 5, 2020
    “The police are a tool of the state—they are violence workers acting on behalf of the state—but they’ve been wrapped up in this myth that they’re neutral, independent crime fighters.” — Alex Vitale in a new interview: bostonreview.net/race-politics-…
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    Nov 13, 2018
    Myths about #AfricanAmericans that are *still* taught in medical school include: —they have a higher tolerance for pain —they are unlikely to get cystic fibrosis —they have lower lung capacity. These all have zero proof and cause unnecessary harm. bostonreview.net/wonders/anne-f…
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    Dec 3, 2018
    A previously missing chapter from Malcolm X's autobiography has finally been found! And the rediscovered material reminds us that Malcolm sought a politics that was collective, and not solely reliant on his—or anyone’s—leadership.
    The Missing Malcolm X
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    Jun 15, 2022
    A new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers. @mieinouye on labor's militant minority:
    Labor’s Militant Minority
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