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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Three years after Alabama’s abortion ban, many must make tiring trips for care
About every other day in Alabama, a woman suspecting she is pregnant seeks abortion counseling at an Alabama clinic without knowing how far into the pregnancy she is. She may be a mother with three young children at home. She might be in an abusive relationship. Or perhaps she is a student who someday wants…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’
Thousands of people gathered in Grapevine, Texas, to attend Turning Point USA’s 10th annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit in June. For three days, prominent conservative women made a pitch to a crowd of women and girls mostly in their teens and 20s: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Letter strongly urging Senate to vote no on the Budget Reconciliation bill
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
In a systemically racist nation, apathy is a luxury Black people cannot afford
Growing up Black in Alabama, I saw firsthand how systemic inequities shaped daily life. I watched my mother endure hours-long waits in overcrowded clinics, my aunt struggle with unstable housing and law enforcement officers profile and brutalize Black men and women. These were symptoms of a broader system that denied Black and Brown communities access…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Trump’s actions in Los Angeles fulfill the hard right’s dreams of revenge
A long-held wish of the hard right was fulfilled this month when President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and, later, 700 active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles ostensibly to crack down on people demonstrating against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The massive demonstration of state power occurred against the objections…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Extremist lawyer appears to be training Patriot Front members to fight
A longtime far-right activist and defense lawyer with a history of making death threats, Jason Lee Van Dyke appears to be leading Brazilian jujitsu (BJJ) training efforts inside Patriot Front, according to social media posts reviewed by Hatewatch. Training in martial arts like BJJ provides white nationalist groups such as Patriot Front a way to…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
‘Critical Memory’ sites remind us of our responsibility to acknowledge the past
As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s gradual, grinding close, from V-E Day on May 8 through V-J Day on Aug. 14, I recently had the opportunity to travel to Germany. I was one of 50 delegates from the U.S. and Germany gathered for a joint project titled “Building a Critical Memory:…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Royal homecoming a chance to recharge as community faces uncertain future
By central Florida standards, the summer Saturday morning in Royal was mild. “The rain yesterday cooled things off,” said Cliff Hughes as he prepared chicken thighs and drumsticks in the parking lot adjacent to the site of the former Royal Community School, now part of a 4-acre park. He had two large, deep frying pans…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
When the People Rise: Juneteenth, George Floyd and the Black resistance legacy
Juneteenth marks the day the last people who were enslaved in Texas learned they were free — 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s a celebration of freedom fulfilled. But the truth is, freedom for Black people in America has often been delayed and denied — but always demanded. That legacy didn’t begin in…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Waves of Los Angeles ICE raids erode our democracy, drown our humanity
Right now in Los Angeles, fear beats louder than the helicopter rotors overhead. My neighbors are terrified. Not just stressed or on edge; I’m talking stay-inside-and-don’t-even-answer-the-door type of fear. I’ve seen teachers online telling parents they would bring students home after school because their parents are too scared to leave the house. Grocery store runs?…
