The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, LA, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately. There have been more incidents of hanging nooses and some are directly aimed at certain groups of people. It is hard to ignore where this country is headed, the current rise in [...]
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for the pre-Thanksgiving edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s Weekly Blog Round-Up. This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
The Texas Cloverleaf examines the ongoing feud between TxDOT and NTTA — this time the funding for the Hwy 161 project Dallas County may face its wrath. [...]
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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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Mychal Bell, one of the Black students known as the Jena 6, is back in jail. Bell, was ordered to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge determined he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions.
According to CNN, the decision to send Bell to the juvenile facility came at the [...]
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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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