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Fear of equality: Why Conservatives are frantic to restrict Black Americans from access to education

Fear of equality: Why Conservatives are frantic to restrict Black Americans from access to education

Posted by | Sep 30, 2022

On August 21, 1831, enslaved American Nat Turner 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 of...

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Declining Democracy: How the United States is turning into a “developing country” like Cuba and Bulgaria

Declining Democracy: How the United States is turning into a “developing country” like Cuba and Bulgaria

Posted by | Sep 29, 2022

By Kathleen Frydl, Sachs Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list. In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries. The...

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Mayor Cavalier Johnson signs ordinance establishing Juneteenth Day as an official city holiday

Mayor Cavalier Johnson signs ordinance establishing Juneteenth Day as an official city holiday

Posted by | Sep 27, 2022

Mayor Cavalier Johnson signed Common Council File number 220475 on September 26 that formally established Juneteenth Day as an official holiday for the City of Milwaukee. With the ordinance, Milwaukee joined the federal government and about half the states in formally marking June 19 as a holiday honoring of the end of slavery in the United States. “As Americans, we have a dark history. The original sin of this country was slavery. And so many people, their families, and their community, have endured the pains and the traumas for generations of that vile institution of slavery,” said Mayor Johnson....

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Failed Promises: Why Puerto Rico’s vulnerability to hurricanes is magnified by bureaucratic roadblocks

Failed Promises: Why Puerto Rico’s vulnerability to hurricanes is magnified by bureaucratic roadblocks

Posted by | Sep 26, 2022

By Carlos A. Suárez Carrasquillo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida; and Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Five years after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, Hurricane Fiona has killed at least four people, caused widespread flooding and left hundreds of thousands of residents without water or power. Maria caused extensive damage to Puerto Rico’s power grid in 2017 that left many residents without electricity for months. Rebuilding it has been hampered by technical, political, and financial challenges. Other factors have hindered efforts to recover from Maria,...

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A Political Stunt: DeSantis faces criminal investigation for shipping asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard

A Political Stunt: DeSantis faces criminal investigation for shipping asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard

Posted by | Sep 26, 2022

By Jean Lantz Reisz, Supervising Attorney, USC Immigration Clinic and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, University of Southern California The unexpected arrival of approximately 50 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on September 14, 2022, has prompted legal questions about how and why, exactly, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chartered planes to drop them in this unlikely destination. The move is part of a broader campaign by Republican politicians to transport large numbers of migrants to liberal states and cities. Since then, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has activated 125 National Guard members to help distribute food and other...

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Mahsa Amini: Milwaukee’s Iranian community holds vigil for woman who died in police custody in Iran

Mahsa Amini: Milwaukee’s Iranian community holds vigil for woman who died in police custody in Iran

Posted by | Sep 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: One of the individuals who participated in this vigil has recently returned to Iran. Anyone who was seen taking part in a Mahsa Amini protest has been brutally persecuted by the current regime. This includes citizens who protested overseas and then returned to Iran. Therefore, considering the risk and safety of this individual from Milwaukee, who is now in Iran, some published images have been altered as a protection to hide their identity. This was done instead of quietly removing the images, so that the Milwaukee public would be aware of the continued dangers that citizens of...

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