Since the incident that occurred in Jena, LA, the number of nooses that have been cropping up across the country has increased. The latest noose sighting has occurred at an Exxon Mobil facility in Baytown, TX, a town located along the Gulf Coast.
According to CBS local affiliate KHOU-TV, a noose was found hanging from scaffolding [...]
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Acting on an emergency defense appeal, Louisiana’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the aggravated second-degree battery conviction of Mychal Bell, 17, ruling that the youth had been tried improperly as an adult. Mychal Bell, the first of the six black students to stand before a judge, was tried as an adult, convicted of [...]
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One of the problems being a blogger during a time when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell and democracy here in the US is crumbing faster right before our very eyes, it becomes very difficult exposing everything that that is going on, such as completing a post on the situation down in [...]
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In the post-civil rights period, racial, ethnic and gender diversity has critical to our nation’s global competitiveness, national security and to our personal and community development. However, after decades of political and cultural conflict over the meaning of race and the persistence of structural racism in the US, new racial formations have developed. [tag]Racism[/tag] has [...]
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In nearly every category that measures social well-being, the conditions of racially oppressed people have worsened. In the communities of the [tag]African American[/tag], [tag]Latino[/tag], [tag]Asian American[/tag], [tag]Native American[/tag], and other nationally and racially oppressed peoples the situation is at crisis levels. Adding another blow, the xenophobic resident of [tag]Farmers Branch[/tag], TX has approved by a [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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