This city marked 100 consecutive days of anti-racist, anti-police protests on Sept. 5. The protests have shifted away from downtown and into North Portland – home to police “union” headquarters – and to the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct. March outside the Portland Police Association, Sept. 4. Police continue to . . .
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Two months before George Floyd was publicly lynched May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer pressing a knee on his neck for almost nine minutes, Breonna Taylor was lynched in late March by three Louisville, Ky., police officers. Thousands attend Justice for Breonna Taylor protest outside Kentucky Derby, Sept. 5. . . .
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On Aug. 12, 2017, an angry white nationalist participating in a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., deliberately sped his car up and drove into unsuspecting counterdemonstrators, striking and killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more. Donald Trump’s initial response was to condemn the “display of hatred, bigotry and . . .
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“Against the Loveless World,” Susan Abulhawa’s third novel, is that rarest of treasures, a bona fide masterpiece. The kind of novel that you don’t just read, but inhale. The kind that fills your heart and mind for long after you’ve turned the last page. Why? Not only because this is . . .
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By Vanessa Lee Naisha Vanessa Lee Naisha is a Black transgender woman being held in an all-male prison in Pennsylvania. She is a subscriber to Workers World newspaper and is a member of Food Not Bombs Solidarity. Vanessa Lee Naisha My name is Vanessa Lee Naisha. I am a 57-years-young . . .
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