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“The ultra-wealthy get billions in tax breaks, while Black families lose the very programs that have historically provided pathways to the middle class.”
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
“This administration is intent on repeating the sins of the past, which is why they don’t want people to learn about what happened in the past.”
The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.
“It’s these tax-lobbying corporations that have fought so hard to keep taxes complicated and confusing for the rest of us.”
Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.
“Making conditions for people in the US better…is going to be an important part of our strategy to make the case for immigration.”
Tren de Aragua hype fuels a general persecution of migrants by implying that migrant shelters are gang hotbeds.
Coverage of the LA fires demonstrates that in the Murdoch fantasyland, “wokeness” can be used to blame literally anything.
“Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward.”
This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
Not only are white men without college degrees not uniquely disadvantaged, they’re actually better paid than any other demographic without a college degree.
“A lot of housing discrimination is enacted through things that don’t overtly appear to be about race, and may not even directly appear to be about housing.”
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.
Host Tony Dokoupil began the interview with an aggressive monologue that effectively dismissed Coates’ and his worldview, painting him as a radical not worth listening to.
A FAIR study of US newspapers found the overwhelming majority of times the vague term “identity politics” was mentioned, it was referring to Democrats and the left.
“The future of the economy is based on how well minorities do in America.”
A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
