Articles focusing on politics

I’m with the March! Stop Racist Rahm

Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Black people have been isolated and separated since our ancestors were brought here. There has been slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the construction of project housing complexes and now this. The closing

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Drug arrests drop in Chicago but still snare thousands in black neighborhoods

Mick Dumke Article Reprint It’s not exactly the same old war on drugs. As law enforcement officials focus their efforts on violent, big-time drug operations, Chicago police made fewer street-level drug arrests in 2012 than

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Parents of Kimani Gray to File Wrongful-Death Suit

The 16-year-old boy was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn two months ago By #teamEBONY Article Reprint A 16-year-old boy shot by police in Brooklyn  two months ago lay mortally wounded on the ground

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Mr. President,Stop Throwing Black People Under the Bus

[OPINION] Dr. Brittney Cooper responds to the president’s remarks about  fatherhood and gun violence By Brittney Cooper, Ph.D.     Article Reprint Almost as soon as he began to talk, I found myself deeply  incensed at President 

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Police Use of Drug-Sniffing Dogs to Carry Out Warrantless Searches During Traffic Stops

www.rutherford.org Article Reprint WASHINGTON, DC — In a 9-0 decision in Florida v. Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that police may use drug-sniffing dogs to carry out warrantless searches during routine traffic stops.

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Black Labor Too Uppity for the Fields: Guest Workers Needed

Glen Ford Article Reprint By his silence, President Obama is giving the wink and nod to guest worker programs under immigration reform, further institutionalizing the displacement of African Americans from farm work. “The farm owners,

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U.S. Gives Haiti the Gift of Prisons

By: Glen Ford Article Reprint The United States, in its infinite kindness, is making Haiti a gift of two penal institutions. It’s actually the most back-handed kind of charity. In order to keep Haiti a

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South Korean President Fires Spokesman

By CHOE SANG-HUN Article Reprint SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has fired her spokesman for committing an “unsavory” act while he was traveling with her on her state visit to

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