Without patriotic appeals, the great social movements that weakened inequalities of class, gender and race in the United States — and spread their message around the world — never would have gotten off the ground. A self-critical sense of patriotism also led activists on the left to oppose ...
health care, the economy and jobs. Other issues like immigration and discrimination, where Trump hasa long historyof race-baiting andtrying to clamp down on migration, were a lower priority this year. “We do a disservice when we paint the Latino vote with a broad brush,” Garcia-Rios ad...
1967: Newark Race Riots Heightened racial tensions escalated into deadly riots in several American cities during the summer of 1967. In Newark, an incident of police brutality sparked five days of rioting and claimed at least 26 lives. This image, in which National Guard troops patrol the empty...
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The reason why we are taught history, is so that we may learn from the mistakes of those who went before us. We are all just people, and there are good and bad among us all, no matter what race, religion or land we hail from, but judging someone on any of that, makes you one ...
Tin foil hat? "Perhaps! But conspiracy thinking cuts across race, gender, political party." "Almost everybody believes some kind of conspiracy theory at some point," said psychologist Rob Brotherton, who asserts human beings are skeptical of coincidence, and think in terms of cause-and-effect....
But as with all things of this nature, it’s really hard to assess what the impact this will have in the polls and on the race. Remember, we’ve still got weeks to go before November, and even though Biden currently has a healthy lead over Trump nationally, that could change. We’re...
And the argument of the essay is that that perspective, one, the way we talk about race now in America is that way in personal terms. And the great example of this is the owner of the Clippers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, who owns the team forever, ever, ever, ever ...
The 2018 midterms were a good night for nationwide Democrats. The party took control of the House of Representatives and pickup up 7 Governorships. However, in Florida, results were much bleaker for team blue. Andrew Gillum lost the Governor race to Ron DeSantis and three-term Incumbent Se...
Communist countries like Cuba, offer no opportunity for upward mobility. Basically there is no future because the government owns everything and there is no private enterprise. This is why many Cubans risk their lives on a raft to escape this island. There are no rewards for hard work because...