Possibly the only movement to force a response from presidential candidates in the election is Black Lives Matter. Activists pushed Bernie Sanders to develop a racial justice platform after disrupting his speeches. Activists in South Carolina and Philadelphia have challenged Hillary Clinton over her support for policies of mass incarceration and her “superpredator” comment in […]
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I spent yesterday in Washington, DC, where the the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington was being commemorated. And unsurprisingly it was a big disappointment, just as I expected it would be. It may seem harsh, but to think that a day packed with pretty speeches by a diverse array of powerful elites, like […]
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