Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders and Sofia Campos of United We Dream were scheduled to speak at yesterday’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Both are youth led organizations tackling civil rights issues like immigration, racial profiling and the school-to-prison pipeline. That might explain why the were cut from the roster last […]

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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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