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Angola is the longest running slave plantation in the United States. It is also the nation’s largest maximum-security prison.
Every inmate at Angola is sentenced to hard labor. These men, like hundreds of others, worked in the fields. While picking carrots on the former slave plantation, we discussed the cycle of incarceration and prison labor. #Dateline #JusticeForAll
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Required viewing: watch Ta-Nehisi Coate’s powerful congressional testimony in support of reparations for slavery.
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Is the cost of healthcare the same as a decade ago? NO.
Is the cost of education the same as a decade ago? NO.
Is the cost of rent the same as a decade ago? NO.
Is the cost of food and consumer goods the same as a decade ago? NO.
Why is the federal minimum wage still $7.25?
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The reason women are critiqued for being too loud or too meek, too big or too small, too smart to be attractive or too attractive to be smart, is to belittle women out of standing up publicly.
The goal is to ‘critique’ into submission. & That applies to anyone challenging power.
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Stop infantalizing white men and pathologizing black ones.
Kavanaugh, accused of attempted rape, was 17: Trump defending his “very special” guy.
All of the Central Park Five, accused of rape, we’re YOUNGER than 17: Trump said he hated them and called for their execution.
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Everything you've been told about #BothamJean is wrong.
This case has nothing to do with racism or police brutality while simultaneously having everything to do with police brutality and whiteness: trib.al/eE6oSmb
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I need some tech help.
Does anyone know how to restore America from a saved backup or reset it to factory settings?
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John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Va., on July 12, 1898.
A group gathered Saturday to honor him & collect a jar of earth, now en route to @eji_org's lynching memorial, from the lynching site. wapo.st/2KWfGRb
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As a comic this is trite as fuck but IF MEN WERE THE ONES WHO GOT PREGNANT THIS WOULD BE A NON ISSUE xitter.cf/jaketapper/status/1012…
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Analysis with Roper data on racism and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy, from @TheRoot and @michaelharriot: theroot.com/from-most-hated-…
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It's telling that resentment towards wealth in sports is always directed at black athletes and not the vastly wealthier franchise owners.
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The irony of wrongly claiming the civil war was about states rights then crossing from NC to VA to tell us how to deal with statues
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DSA endorsed candidate @RossForDelegate who is looking to pull off a major upset in Virginia was profiled in WaPo! washingtonpost.com/local/vir…
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Desired for their labor, rejected as neighbors, farmworkers in California face hostile communities latimes.com/projects/la-fi-f…
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They had to use knives and a truck because they couldn't get hold of guns. Imagine the carnage if they had & had returned police fire. xitter.cf/realdonaldtrump/status…
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My god. @POTUS has no idea that the goal of terrorists is to instill a level of fear in the public disproportionate to the actual threat. xitter.cf/realdonaldtrump/status…
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"The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it.” — Bryan Stevenson vox.com/2017/5/24/15675606/b…
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#TerenceCrutcher son graduated preschool today @JonathanMcCall talked to Terence's parents shares what they want tell Betty Shelby FOX23 5p
