Glen Ford, BAR executive editor, Black Agenda Report March 1, 2018 “In less than two decades, Chicago lost 250,000 Black residents, one quarter of its total Black population. That’s more than the Black populations of New Orleans and Atlanta , and equal to the Black population of Manhattan, New York City. And, it’s happening all… Read More Glen Ford: Black Urban Displacement
The movement among high school students to challenge the right to gun ownership in America will be seen as a critical turning point in American culture. If it succeeds in enacting laws to restrict gun ownership, the type of weapons and who can purchase them, it will be seen as a watershed moment in American… Read More Get Rid of the Guns, Period.
Guns and Race: The different worlds of black and white Americans Richard V. Reeves Tuesday, December 15, 2015 “The nation’s consciousness has been raised by the repeated acts of police brutality against blacks. But the problem of public space violence—seen in the extraordinary distress, trauma and pain many poor inner-city families experience following the killing of… Read More Guns, Gender and Race
The “Alt-Right” Is Building a White Nationalist Mass Movement With “Operation Homeland” Tuesday, February 20, 2018 By Shane Burley, Truthout | News Analysis Surrounded by his bodyguards, “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer answers questions of reporters during a rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, June 25, 2017. (Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post… Read More White Nationalists Seek Campus Recruits
So this Sunday’s sit at Friends Meeting House (Society of Friends/Quakers) was a bit different. There was about a half hour of silence and then people started ‘sharing’. One member spoke of his cross-country quest for spiritual knowledge and how that led to experimenting with psychedelic mushrooms. Another member shared what she learned about being… Read More Quaker Bodhisattva Pt. 2
Why Growing Veggies in the City Isn’t Just a Feel-Good Exercise originally published in Mother Jones Urban agriculture could yield up to 10 percent of many food crops. Amy CrawfordFeb. 18, 2018 6:00 AM Olivier Polet/Zuma Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here… Read More The Future of Urban Food
BANGKOK (AP) — When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decadelong prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical weapons factory in Myanmar a few years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi — then an opposition lawmaker — condemned the harsh punishments as “very excessive.” The journalists, from the now-defunct Unity publication, had… Read More Myanmar government under Suu Kyi cracks down on journalists
