A new study finds that black women have lost more jobs than black men since the recession began in December 2007, notwithstanding the fact that most black women are the heads of family households, thereby making black women even more economically vulnerable. From Crains New York: While the recession hit…
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The ACLU and Lawyers’s Committee for civil rights filed a class action suit against DHS and ICE for their blanket policy of shackling detainees, all of whom appear in immigration court shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles, regardless of history or risk of danger. From Lawyers Committee for Civil…
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Call the White House to End S-Comm TODAY: Monday, August 15th — Suspend “Secure Communities.” Stop the Detentions & Deportations. Restore our Rights. Investigate the Abuses. White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 Line is open 9am-5pm Eastern | 8am-4pm Central | 6am-2pm Pacific From the National Immigration Law Center: Join your…
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Women with doctorate level degrees make as much their male counterparts with an undergraduate degree. From ThinkProgress.org: Kay Steiger pulls out this chart from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which notes that, when it comes to lifetime earnings, women with a Ph.D. make as much as men with…
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The Theft of Wealth from People of Color: Who and What are We Organizing For? by Seeta Persaud The Economic Immobility and Financial Insecurity of POC According to a Pew Research Center study released last week, the median wealth (assets minus debt) for white households is a little over $113,000,…
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Solicitor General Barry Morgan prosecuted Raquel Nelson of Marietta, Georgia, vilifying and persecuting her by persuading the all-middle-class-white jury, who has never had to rely upon public transportation, that she was a living embodiment of the pathological, negligent bad black mother archetype. Raquel Nelson’s crime? She was crossing the street…
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Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were…
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From Change.org: Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) are going on an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike was organized by prisoners in an unusual show of racial…
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