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by | May 25, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — It’s only been one year since George Floyd died under the knee of Derek Chauvin outside Cup Foods, but his memorial has the air of permanence. That’s not just because the city has been unable to regain…

by | Apr 15, 2021

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota — I was standing beside a crowd of protesters outside the police precinct Tuesday night when a white Lexus skidded up behind me. Three young guys hopped out. Two jumped on top of the car. One raised…

by | Jul 11, 2020

On Saturday, July 4, a man named James Garcia was shot and killed by police while sitting in the front seat of a car parked on a driveway in Phoenix, Arizona. Details surrounding the incident were extremely murky, but this…

by | Jul 6, 2020

 Tuesday, July 7, is designated as #BlackoutDay2020, a campaign in which black people and progressive supporters boycott all businesses as a show of solidarity for the racial justice movement. The movement’s founder, Texan hip-hop artist and activist Calvin Martyr, posted…

by | Jul 5, 2020

When I was in college, the person I respected most was Ken Kesey. Everything hinges on consciousness. An unexamined life is not living. Kesey’s work was one great, creative exercise in revolutionary consciousness-raising. So it seemed in 1971. I was…

by | Jun 25, 2020

On Monday, demonstrators protesting systemic racism and the death of George Floyd attempted to instate an autonomous zone in the heart of the nation’s capital. The activists built barricades and set up tents just a few blocks from the White…

by | Jun 11, 2020

Calls for disbanding the nation’s police forces have mounted following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One might think that these outlandish petitions are just the sound and fury of a…

by | Jun 10, 2020

On Thursday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced that plans are underway to remove the large statue of Robert E. Lee from its prominent position on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, where it has stood for well over a century. The governor’s decision…

by | Jun 9, 2020

The video of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent riots across the country have gone global and sparked peaceful protests — which soon became violent — in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia in solidarity with U.S. demonstrators. Thousands of people…

by | Jun 5, 2020

On Sunday evening, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd defaced and toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn, which had stood in a public park in Birmingham, Alabama, since being installed in 2013 by a charity.  The destruction…

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