Why don't Chicago's mass shootings count?
Other American cities get headline treatment when tragedy stikes, but in predominantly Black neighborhoods it's treated as routine.
Sports has a place in politics
We should welcome the weight it throws around, even if imperfectly, on issues like voter rights.
Counterpoint: In truth, overpopulation is blighting human lives
We don't need more people on the planet, we need to change the economic system.
Georgia's voting law: If it's not Jim Crow, what is it?
It's at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: 'Black people can't vote.'
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