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The blood continues to flow āin the streets, in detention centers, in prison camps, and in communities terrorized by militarized raids. Bullet-riddled cars,…
In a change of course, the Trump administrationās plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively…
I danced among a sea of my people at a nightclub in Center City, Philadelphia, to celebrate Haitian Independence Day. Earlier, while…
āThis is the new normal of Trumpās America ā federal agents flood our neighborhoods. A poorly trained, gun-happy immigration agent kills someone.…
It is an arresting image: On the Fourth of July, a lone, young Black woman sits on a train filled with White…
As the country and this administration launched its America 250 and Freedom 250 āCelebrationsā, what we experienced in the nationās capitol and…
There has been something almost surreal in President Donald Trumpās efforts to both whitewash US history as well as make 4 July…
Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name āNew…
On Saturday June 20, President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency in Bolivia. The decree came shortly after he reached an…
Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking clarity.…
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