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White Supremacist Violence Is on the Rise

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|Date: September 28, 2019
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White Supremacist Violence Is on the Rise

By Hina Shamsi In response to the increase in white supremacist violence, Congress has been holding heari ...

By Hina Shamsi In response to the increase in white supremacist violence, Congress has been holding hearings — including one today — on the urgent need to address it. But, rather than getting to the b ...

September 28, 2019
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The Death Penalty and Racism

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|Date: August 26, 2019
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The Death Penalty and Racism

By Jeffery Robinson In 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants ...

By Jeffery Robinson In 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants to strike the death penalty from their cases if they could show that racial discrimination was ...

August 26, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 4 – Attica Uprising – Heather Ann Thompson

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|Date: August 05, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 4 – Attica Uprising – Heather Ann Thompson

The Attica Uprising is an overlooked attrocity in American History - comparable to perhaps Mai Lai, Abu G ...

The Attica Uprising is an overlooked attrocity in American History - comparable to perhaps Mai Lai, Abu Ghraib, and the Battle of Wounded Knee. Historian Heather Ann Thompson, won the Pulitzer Prize f ...

August 05, 2019
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Denying Compensation Funds for Black Victims

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|Date: August 03, 2019
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Denying Compensation Funds for Black Victims

By Jill Webb Tiras Johnson, age 23, was unarmed when he was shot and killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His famil ...

By Jill Webb Tiras Johnson, age 23, was unarmed when he was shot and killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His family was devastated by his death, and they were struggling to pay for Tiras’ funeral. Like many vi ...

August 03, 2019
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Tim Wise – Checking White Privilege (video)

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|Date: July 30, 2019
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Tim Wise – Checking White Privilege (video)

Tim Wise came to speak in Davis on Friday at the Senior Center before a packed house. The evening began w ...

Tim Wise came to speak in Davis on Friday at the Senior Center before a packed house. The evening began with a partial viewing of his video, “White Like Me,” where he talked about his unusual upbringi ...

July 30, 2019
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Commentary: Trump’s Rally Evokes Images None of Us Want

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|Date: July 19, 2019
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Commentary: Trump’s Rally Evokes Images None of Us Want

Over the last month, Jews and Japanese have taken the lead in pushing back against the treatment of refug ...

Over the last month, Jews and Japanese have taken the lead in pushing back against the treatment of refugees in detention camps. But there has been a debate over the use of the term concentration cam ...

July 19, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

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|Date: July 16, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a numbe ...

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a number of officers got caught up sending not only racist jokes, but making derogatory statements abo ...

July 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Reparations Not a Symbolic Act, It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

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|Date: June 23, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Reparations Not a Symbolic Act, It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

By Sheila Jackson Lee For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would i ...

By Sheila Jackson Lee For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would introduce H.R. 40, legislation seeking to establish a commission to study and develop reparation ...

June 23, 2019
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Lessons from Juneteenth, Our Continued Fight for Freedom

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|Date: June 21, 2019
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Lessons from Juneteenth, Our Continued Fight for Freedom

By Abre' Conner Two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Black ...

By Abre' Conner Two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people in Galveston, Texas, were told that they were free. Juneteenth is widely celebrated as “ ...

June 21, 2019
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Commentary: Racism Continues to Lie Just Below the Surface

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|Date: January 21, 2019
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Commentary: Racism Continues to Lie Just Below the Surface

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he mu ...

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King The comments ma ...

January 21, 2019
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10 Things Starbucks Could Do to Combat Racism

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|Date: April 18, 2018
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10 Things Starbucks Could Do to Combat Racism

By Jeff Adachi Since a video depicting the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks went viral, Starbucks h ...

By Jeff Adachi Since a video depicting the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks went viral, Starbucks has issued a written apology, CEO Kevin Johnson has met with the men, the store manager who call ...

April 18, 2018
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Racist Sheriffs Are Reapplying to Be Part of Trump’s Deportation Force

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|Date: November 19, 2017
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Racist Sheriffs Are Reapplying to Be Part of Trump’s Deportation Force

By Sarah Gillooly The federal program that delegates immigration enforcement duties to local police is ab ...

By Sarah Gillooly The federal program that delegates immigration enforcement duties to local police is about to expand to as many as 24 additional jurisdictions across the country. The program, known ...

November 19, 2017
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Kaepernick Stood Up for Justice by Kneeling

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|Date: September 25, 2017
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Kaepernick Stood Up for Justice by Kneeling

By Jeffery Robinson Colin Kaepernick has not been involved in “off-field” scandals, has committed no crim ...

By Jeffery Robinson Colin Kaepernick has not been involved in “off-field” scandals, has committed no crime, and has donated almost $1 million to community organizations over the last year, yet the for ...

September 25, 2017
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White Supremacy Has Been Bolstered

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|Date: August 24, 2017
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White Supremacy Has Been Bolstered

And Not In The Way You Might Think By Bryn Buchanan The vigil at UVA after the events of this weekend sho ...

And Not In The Way You Might Think By Bryn Buchanan The vigil at UVA after the events of this weekend should have been beautiful, touching; the community rallying together to reject white supremacy in ...

August 24, 2017
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Commentary: White Supremacy and White Privilege

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2017
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Commentary: White Supremacy and White Privilege

Earlier this year, I was criticized for my support for free speech, with the suggestion made that my whit ...

Earlier this year, I was criticized for my support for free speech, with the suggestion made that my white privilege means that the hateful speech of Milo may not personally jeopardize me as it does m ...

August 22, 2017
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Unity Rally Brings Out Hundreds in Davis to Speak Out against Hate and President’s Comments

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2017
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Unity Rally Brings Out Hundreds in Davis to Speak Out against Hate and President’s Comments

A Unity Rally on Wednesday evening at Central Park brought out several hundred people and saw headline sp ...

A Unity Rally on Wednesday evening at Central Park brought out several hundred people and saw headline speakers including Mayor Robb Davis, Congressman John Garamendi, and UC Davis’ new Chancellor Gar ...

August 17, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Discussions of Race in Davis Are Difficult but Important

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Discussions of Race in Davis Are Difficult but Important

A guest piece by Bryn Buchanan generated quite the discussion. The African American grad student related ...

A guest piece by Bryn Buchanan generated quite the discussion. The African American grad student related their first Picnic Day experience, hearing a group of attendees complain about the number of “ ...

August 07, 2017
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Being Black in Davis Is Not a Picnic

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|Date: August 05, 2017
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Being Black in Davis Is Not a Picnic

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride to ...

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderat ...

August 05, 2017
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Breaking News: Sac NLG Criticizes Judicial Council’s Halloween Party

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|Date: July 25, 2017
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Breaking News: Sac NLG Criticizes Judicial Council’s Halloween Party

State Judicial Council Racist Halloween Party Strongly Criticized in Letter to CA Supreme Court Justice b ...

State Judicial Council Racist Halloween Party Strongly Criticized in Letter to CA Supreme Court Justice by Sacramento Chapter of First and Oldest Racially Integrated U.S. Bar Association (From Press ...

July 25, 2017
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Black Robes and Blackface

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|Date: July 21, 2017
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Black Robes and Blackface

by Jeff Adachi As public defenders, we witness the racism embedded in the criminal justice system. But se ...

by Jeff Adachi As public defenders, we witness the racism embedded in the criminal justice system. But seeing it explicitly celebrated at an office party sponsored by judges was a new one on us. Recen ...

July 21, 2017
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