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As Nigerian Massacre Evidence Grows, Questions Swirl over Collusion Between...

http://democracynow.org – Satellite images and witness accounts have emerged of what Amnesty International calls the “catastrophic destruction” from a massacre in northern Nigeria. Hundreds are feared...

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Man charged in Ferguson police shooting says he was targeting someone else

St. Louis County officials have arrested and charged a 20-year-old St. Louis-area man in connection with last week’s shooting in which gunfire injured two police officers who were standing guard...

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Enough Already! Reform Activists Blast Additional Funding for Wisconsin Prisons

Members of a faith-based group that advocates for prison reform are upset by the Wisconsin Legislature’s approval of additional funding to accommodate an increase in the state’s prison population....

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New Orleans: Recovery or Removal?

SANDY ROSENTHAL, hoppinhill at gmail.com, @leveesorgRosenthal is president of Levees.org. AP reports: “The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward now has a commemorative marker at the...

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Welcome to the United States of Flint

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz / TomDispatch Michigan Municipal League / (CC BY-ND 2.0) This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction here....

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Links for 2016-07-04 [del.icio.us]

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black...

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Links for 2016-07-08 [del.icio.us]

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black...

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Of Poetry and Protest

http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/OfPoetryAndProtest_063016.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download City Lights celebrates the release of Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon...

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The McIntosh County Shouters – Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast

Read more about the upcoming release “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders...

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“Jubilee” by the McIntosh County Shouters

Read more about “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders of the African...

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As Nigerian Massacre Evidence Grows, Questions Swirl over Collusion Between...

http://democracynow.org – Satellite images and witness accounts have emerged of what Amnesty International calls the “catastrophic destruction” from a massacre in northern Nigeria. Hundreds are feared...

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Enough Already! Reform Activists Blast Additional Funding for Wisconsin Prisons

Members of a faith-based group that advocates for prison reform are upset by the Wisconsin Legislature’s approval of additional funding to accommodate an increase in the state’s prison population....

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Art against Erasure: A Roma Gallery in Hungary

Gallery8 is a Roma gallery in Budapest, Hungary, that embraces the ideals and examples of hip hop, bell hooks and other African American civil rights legacies.

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The McIntosh County Shouters – Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast

Read more about the upcoming release “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders...

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“Jubilee” by the McIntosh County Shouters

Read more about “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders of the African...

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As Nigerian Massacre Evidence Grows, Questions Swirl over Collusion Between...

http://democracynow.org – Satellite images and witness accounts have emerged of what Amnesty International calls the “catastrophic destruction” from a massacre in northern Nigeria. Hundreds are feared...

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Enough Already! Reform Activists Blast Additional Funding for Wisconsin Prisons

Members of a faith-based group that advocates for prison reform are upset by the Wisconsin Legislature’s approval of additional funding to accommodate an increase in the state’s prison population....

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The McIntosh County Shouters – Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast

Read more about the upcoming release “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders...

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“Jubilee” by the McIntosh County Shouters

Read more about “Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” by The McIntosh County Shouters on the Smithsonian Folkways website: https://goo.gl/ZY3vyi Acclaimed upholders of the African...

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