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Reggie Jackson: My journey to visit Selma, Alabama and the history some want us all to forget

Reggie Jackson: My journey to visit Selma, Alabama and the history some want us all to forget

Posted by | Aug 24, 2021

This special series by Reggie Jackson explores his journey across four cities in Alabama, to visit historical sites that many are trying to erase from public memory so the disturbing truth about racism, segregation, and White Supremacy can be forgotten. mkeind.com/alabamajourney Dr. King’s right hand man, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy described Selma, Alabama as the “Capital of the Black Belt.” Back in the 1950s and 60s it was the home of Selma University and Lutheran University which drew some of the youngest and brightest minds from the Black community and became a major intellectual and cultural center. Whites from...

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Afghanistan under Taliban rule faces a looming economic crisis as the flow of foreign aid runs dry

Afghanistan under Taliban rule faces a looming economic crisis as the flow of foreign aid runs dry

Posted by | Aug 24, 2021 |

It is still early days, and the picture of what is happening in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has regained control of the country continues to develop. Central to affairs there is money. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with about half its population requiring humanitarian aid this year and about 90% of its people living below the poverty line of making $2 a day. The country depends on foreign aid. Under the U.S.-supported Afghan government, the United States and other nations funded about 80% of Afghanistan’s budget. In 2020, foreign aid made up about...

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The Fear of Equality: Why Black education remains a Civil Rights issue 190 years after Nat Turner’s rebellion

The Fear of Equality: Why Black education remains a Civil Rights issue 190 years after Nat Turner’s rebellion

Posted by | Aug 21, 2021 |

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and the dangers it presented to their own safety. Turner and his friends traveled from house to house in their neighborhood in Southampton County, Virginia, freeing enslaved people and murdering about 60 of the White men, women, and children they encountered. Their goal, Turner later told an interviewer, was “to carry terror and devastation wherever we went.” State militia put down the rebellion in a couple...

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Judicial Opposition: How the Roberts Court continues Strom Thurmond’s crusade against voting rights

Judicial Opposition: How the Roberts Court continues Strom Thurmond’s crusade against voting rights

Posted by | Aug 20, 2021

Civil rights activists marched, were jailed, and sometimes killed in their efforts to achieve equal rights and voting rights for all Americans, including pressuring Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Meanwhile, segregationist Klan members marched in hooded robes and lynched black people in an effort to terrorize the civil rights movement. Simultaneously, their Dixiecrat allies in Congress like Strom Thurmond filibustered for weeks to try to prevent the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act from being passed. Fortunately, they ultimately failed. Now, John Roberts and his right-wing judicial...

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A Memory Hole: When lies leading to war are easier to swallow than the truth about needing to leave

A Memory Hole: When lies leading to war are easier to swallow than the truth about needing to leave

Posted by | Aug 18, 2021 |

We should never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush‘s 2004 reelection strategy. After 9/11 the Taliban offered to arrest Bin Laden, but Bush turned them down because he wanted to be a “wartime president” to have a “successful presidency.” The Washington Post headline weeks after 9/11 put it succinctly: “Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden.” With that decision not to arrest and try Bin Laden for his crime but instead to go to war George W. Bush set the US and Afghanistan on a direct...

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Americans cannot be fighting and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves

Americans cannot be fighting and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves

Posted by | Aug 18, 2021 |

The lightning speed takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces, which captured all 17 of the regional capitals and the national capital of Kabul in about nine days with astonishing ease, was a result of “cease fire” deals. That amounted to bribes, negotiated after former president Trump’s administration came to an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020. When U.S. officials excluded the Afghan government from the deal, soldiers believed that it was only a question of time until they were on their own and cut deals to switch sides. When Biden announced that he would honor Trump’s deal, the...

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