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  • “He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15
    by Texas Tribune
    March 21, 2023
    In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage him, which took more than an hour.
  • States, Cities, and the Wealthy Are Withdrawing From America
    by The Conversation
    March 20, 2023
    Just as there are ways to withdraw from a marriage before any formal divorce, there are also ways to exit a nation before officially seceding.
  • The Proud Boys Trial is a Whole Circus
    by Arturo Dominguez
    February 24, 2023
    While you may not see lions and elephants, there’s no shortage of clowns doing clown business
  • Media Silence as Police Brutality Continues Unabated is Alarming
    by Arturo Dominguez
    February 12, 2023
    The stories of police brutality and death at the hands of police continue while the public looks away
  • State-Sponsored Murder in Memphis: How We Got Here
    by Arturo Dominguez
    January 28, 2023
    The horrifying video of Tyre Nichols’s murder speaks to the growing systemic issues with the militarization of modern-day policing
  • Understanding the Insurrection in Brazil
    by Arturo Dominguez
    January 11, 2023
    While parallels exist between what happened in Brazil to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, it’s much deeper than that
  • The Explosion of Hate Speech Online is Doing Real Harm – That’s the Point
    by Arturo Dominguez
    January 8, 2023
    Popular extremist personalities like Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok are bringing hate from the fringes into the mainstream
  • Becoming An Anti-Immigration Nation
    by Arturo Dominguez
    October 12, 2022
    Now more than ever, anti-immigration rhetoric has invaded both sides of the political aisle in the United States
  • No, There Won’t Be a Civil War in the U.S.
    by Arturo Dominguez
    August 12, 2022
    More terrorist attacks are undoubtedly going to continue
  • Silencing Dissent in Uvalde, Texas
    by Arturo Dominguez
    June 14, 2022
    After the attack targeting an elementary school killing 19 children and 2 teachers, police tightened their chokehold on the community
  • Why Extremist Manifestos Matter
    by Arturo Dominguez
    May 16, 2022
    What the manifestos left behind by mass shooters tell us and why you should be gravely concerned
  • Neoliberalism Killed Roe
    by Arturo Dominguez
    May 3, 2022
    The incremental shift to the political right led to the end of abortion rights in the United States
  • Is Anyone Surprised Trump Wanted to Shoot BLM Protesters?
    by Arturo Dominguez
    May 2, 2022
    It should come as no surprise Trump wanted to physically harm civil rights activists. This is the United States after all.
  • Police Presence On School Grounds Poses Potential Risks To Kids
    by The Conversation
    April 22, 2022
    Evidence shows that students are being arrested for minor misbehavior
  • Students of Color in Special Education Are Less Likely to Get the Help They Need – Here Are 3 Ways Teachers Can Do Better
    by The Conversation
    April 20, 2022
    Teaching students about the contributions that disabled people of color make to our society emphasizes that neither race nor disability should be equated with inferiority.
  • Houston Cops Fired For Killing Nicolas Chavez Reinstated
    by Arturo Dominguez
    March 28, 2022
    Nicolas Chavez was shot more than 20 times after Houston Police officers responded to a call about a suicidal man
  • Transgender Youth on Puberty Blockers and Gender-Affirming Hormones Have Lower Rates of Depression and Suicidal Thoughts, a New Study Finds
    by The Conversation
    March 3, 2022
    Transgender Youth on Puberty Blockers and Gender-Affirming Hormones Have Lower Rates of Depression and Suicidal Thoughts, a New Study Finds
  • Maternal Mortality Rates Spike for Black Women in 2020
    by Arturo Dominguez
    February 28, 2022
    U.S. pregnancy deaths spike in the first year of the pandemic, especially among Black women
  • America’s Cost of ‘Defending Freedom’ in Ukraine
    by The Conversation
    February 25, 2022
    America’s Cost of ‘Defending Freedom’ in Ukraine: Higher food and gas prices and an increased risk of recession
  • How Brad Pitt’s Green Housing Dream for Hurricane Katrina Survivors Turned Into a Nightmare
    by The Conversation
    February 9, 2022
    Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built affordable homes in New Orleans for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
  • How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders, and Genetic Diseases
    by The Conversation
    February 4, 2022
    The idea of using genetic material to produce an immune response has opened up a world of research and potential medical uses far out of reach of traditional vaccines
  • New Forms of Advertising Raise Questions About Journalism Integrity
    by The Conversation
    February 4, 2022
    Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media
  • The Great Amazon Land Grab
    by The Conversation
    February 3, 2022
    How Brazil’s government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation
  • Africans and African-Americans Would Honour Martin Luther King by Rekindling Their Bonds
    by The Conversation
    January 17, 2022
    King’s knowledge of Africa evolved slowly and was initially peppered with the usual beliefs of African backwardness.
  • Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: 5 Things I’ve Learned Curating the MLK Collection at Morehouse College
    by The Conversation
    January 17, 2022
    For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection
  • Neighborhoods With MLK Streets Are Poorer Than National Average and Highly Segregated, Study Reveals
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    Poverty rates are almost double the national average in areas surrounding streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., according to our recent study, and educational attainment is much lower.
  • America’s Public Schools Seldom Bring Rich and Poor Together – and MLK Would Disapprove
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    More than five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools.
  • Black Americans Mostly Left Behind by Progress Since Dr. King’s Death
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers.
  • Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
  • MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    More than 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the United States remains divided by issues of race and racism, economic inequality as well as unequal access to justice.
  • How a Heritage of Black Preaching Shaped MLK’s Voice in Calling for Justice
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. President Barack Obama mentioned King in both his Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance and victory speeches in 2008
  • How the Vietnam War Pushed MLK to Embrace Global Justice, Not Only Civil Rights at Home
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    King was foremost a minister who pastored to a local church throughout his career, even while he was doing national civil rights work.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Much More Radical Message Than a Dream of Racial Brotherhood
    by The Conversation
    January 16, 2022
    Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States.
  • Unbroken Bodies: Putting Our Well-Being First
    by Arturo Dominguez
    July 30, 2021
    Attacks on people for exhibiting self-care speak to the broader lack of empathy that permeates through modern society
  • Let’s Talk About the Mt. Laurel Township Incident
    by Arturo Dominguez
    July 6, 2021
    Alarming elements about the incident go beyond what the video tells us
  • That Summer When Buffalo Soldiers Marched Against Police Brutality in Houston
    by Arturo Dominguez
    June 16, 2021
    In 1917, 156 soldiers of the all-Black 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment rose against the brutal treatment of Black people by Houston police
  • The Racist Propaganda About Daunte Wright Is a Message to White America
    by Arturo Dominguez
    May 5, 2021
    A reminder of how Black and Latino victims of police brutality are purposely demonized by law enforcement using the media
  • With Only a Moment to Breathe, Another Police Shooting
    by Arturo Dominguez
    April 22, 2021
    Just moments prior to the verdict being read in the Derek Chauvin trial, Ma’khia Bryant was killed by a Columbus, Ohio police officer
  • For Too Many, Equality Is Uncomfortable
    by Arturo Dominguez
    March 23, 2021
    In the last several years the dominant population in America has displayed a lack of comfort with equitable solutions to racial injustice
  • If Biden Voters Weren’t So Scared of Trump’s Mob…
    by Johnny Silvercloud
    February 13, 2021
    If those Biden voters showed up on Jan 6th, 2021 the way they did on Nov 7th, 2020, the Capitol would not have been attacked.
  • QAnon Highlights Diversity in Anti-Semitism
    by Arturo Dominguez
    February 3, 2021
    QAnon has shown us how anti-Semitic language has become normalized among a diverse coalition of people
  • A Social Media App for Hate; An Attack on the Capitol; An Ominous Warning
    by Arturo Dominguez
    January 14, 2021
    The United States appears to be headed to one of the darkest times in modern history
  • Rebekah Mercer Funding Parler Is the Tip of The Iceberg
    by Arturo Dominguez
    November 16, 2020
    There is nothing new about Rebekah Mercer’s support of far-right hate, yet Americans seem shocked by it. In April I discussed the funding behind many of the hate groups that organized and participated in anti-lockdown protests around the country. It came as no surprise to learn that the Mercer family played a large role in […]
  • I Don’t Care if You’re Racist
    by Arturo Dominguez
    July 31, 2020
    I really don’t. Let’s be clear, I have no issue with you being a racist. I’m also not saying I’m going to sit here and accept it either. If you want to sit around making racist jokes among your bigoted friends and family who won’t call you out, go ahead. If you find joy in being […]
  • ICE Held Asylum Seeking Children in Hotels, Who Was Watching Them?
    by Arturo Dominguez
    July 27, 2020
    Hotels were used 186 times while 10,000 beds for children remained empty at government shelters Despite anti-trafficking laws and decades-old legal precedent, the Trump administration has been detaining migrant children as young as 1-year-old in hotels before deporting them, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. By circumventing the rules that govern the treatment of […]
  • What Really Happened to Rasheem Carter?
  • “He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15
  • States, Cities, and the Wealthy Are Withdrawing From America
  • The Push For Civil War is Closer to You Than You Think
  • Americans Are Behind the Fentanyl Crisis, Not Immigrants
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