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Knot of people protesting in front of steps leading into a civic building. A slim woman in a bright blue T-shirt is holding a bullhorn close to her mouth with one hand, pointing straight up with the other. People are masked, various skin hues from deep black to olive.

Racial Justice

Racial Capitalism – ‘Because I’m Black All the Time’

Steven Pitts

Understanding racial capitalism helps us go deeper than looking for “disparate impacts” on people of color, says Maurice BP-Weeks.

Rectangular area is split by a white diagonal line in the middle. Left: a white man in a suit and tie speaking into a microphone, above a Black woman being grabbed under the armpit. "Jim Crow 1.0" Right: a white man in a suit signing voter suppression bill and a Black woman in a red mask and long braids being arrested by two policemen in blue shirts. "Jim Crow 2.0"

For the People Act vs. Jim Crow in New Clothes

By

Max Elbaum

Nighttime rally. Foreground, African American man holding a bullhorn in one hand, gesturing with the other, speaking next to a banner that reads "#Cancel Student Debt." Background, masked rally-goers, and behind them, bare trees strung with lights, and city buildings.

Racial Justice Demands We Cancel Student Debt

By

Marcy Rein and Mickey Ellinger