The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
The president won’t acknowledge that coronavirus is still a threat — unless it could get him sued.
In Seattle, protesters have barricaded a six-block autonomous zone, after protests were met with a violent police response. Amid a days-long standoff, police removed barricades and abandoned their East Precinct building, and protesters moved into the area, declaring it “Free Capitol Hill.” We go to Seattle to speak with Omari Salisbury, a citizen journalist who has been live-streaming the uprising and police crackdown.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
As protests against police brutality and racism continue across the country, we speak with historian and UCLA professor of African American studies Robin D.G. Kelley. “We’re not here by accident,” Kelley says, crediting racial justice organizers for laying the groundwork for this moment over the last decade. “The real question now is whether or not this can be sustained.
A day after George Floyd’s family laid him to rest in his hometown of Houston, his brother Philonise Floyd addressed lawmakers on Capitol Hill to demand an end to police violence. “I’m tired. I’m tired of pain,” he told the House Judiciary Committee. “People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change. Honor them. Honor George.
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections. “I worry that what we’ve seen so far is an undercount and what we’re seeing now is really just the beginning of another wave of infections spreading across the country,” says Dr.
After years of scandal and declining sales, the iconic brand is struggling to survive the coronavirus.
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
The ratio still isn’t in your favor.
The WHO Africa chief said that community transmission has begun in more than half of Africa’s 54 countries and “this is a serious sign.
ACT UP historian Sarah Schulman on Kramer’s pioneering bravery, toxic intransigence, and the recipe for lasting change.
The grim milestone comes as the outbreak spikes in numerous states.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Emily Holden at The Guardian writes—Hack-for-hire group targeted climate activists behind #ExxonKnew campaign.
State officials, reluctant to damage reopening economies, contend they are better equipped for a new wave of cases.
As the novel coronavirus continues to slam the nation, some states are still beginning to reopen in phases. As we enter into full-season summer, people are likely especially eager to get out and do something. As just announced, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure intend to reopen on July 17, pending state and local government approval.
Plus, can you reverse the transition from mommy to mom?
Think about how to help the person you’re trying to network with, rather than helping yourself.
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
The Fed chief will likely keep up his persistent advice to Congress to spend more to spur a meaningful recovery.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation official on Monday.
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Amid calls to “defund the police,” Donald Trump and most on the right have come out decidedly against transferring funds from law enforcement to social programs. They’re apparently fine with defunding everything else, though.
Education, environmental regulation and financial policing are just fine to defund of course.
There is a unique quality to this day-by-day pandemic sadness, this quarantine depression that with the protests is edging into despair. I’m not referring to those adults who seemed, in the early, pre-protest days, to be inexplicably thriving. “I’ve never been so busy!” one friend, a computer consultant, giddily enthused.
“War is about money. Money is about war. Every time I walk out my front door, I see cops patrolling my neighborhood like it’s some kind of police state. I can feel just how much I ain’t worth.” So says Stormin’ Norman (played by Chadwick Boseman), the mythic figure at the center of Spike Lee’s bombastic war epic Da 5 Bloods (out on Netflix today).
It’s remarkable that more than 150 years after the Civil War ended, Republicans are still fighting a rearguard action.
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Senate chairman vows fight over Confederacy issue
Inhofe plans to water down language requiring name change for bases honoring Confederate generals
Oklahoma Republican James M.
