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9 Feb 2007, 2:06 am
We are killing us,' said Tim Stevens, head of the Black Political Empowerment Project and an organizer of the meeting. 'We have become the problem and we must now find the solutions. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 9:04 am by Frank Pasquale
" That is one reason I made the following proposal in my book The Black Box Society:Consider the development of the Human Genome Project— a program of research about as sensitive and ambitious, with as much potential for good and ill, as the Human Security Project now consuming so much of the federal budget. [read post]
29 Sep 2018, 5:40 am by SHG
Identity politics focuses explicitly on group identity and seeks political empowerment by promoting that group as a monolithic, marginalized entity distinct from and polarized against another group depicted as a monolithic privileged entity. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 11:31 am by Indrasish Majumder
The hashtag has been perceived as a symbol of female empowerment and gleans internationalresponse to the issue of femicide in Turkey. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  For most of American history, from the beginning through the early twentieth century, this general pattern describes the constitutional politics—that is, the constitutional contests, going on in politics—about the major high-stakes issues of each political era: tariffs and trade, currency and banking, outfitting Black ex-slaves for citizenship, the rights of labor and capital, antitrust and the new corporate economy. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 11:00 pm
The event, entitled "THINK BLACK! [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 6:36 am
In 2013, spying became the new black, with the National Security Agency leading the way. [read post]
23 Sep 2012, 3:00 am by Lee Davis
Given that black people make up 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, but 37.9 percent of those in federal and state prisons, an overwhelmingly large number of black people are denied the right to vote when compared to other races.Disenfranchisement also impacts the national political debate by removing millions of possible constituents from the voter rolls. [read post]
1 Oct 2012, 5:03 pm
Disenfranchisement also impacts the national political debate by removing millions of possible constituents from the voter rolls. [read post]
23 Sep 2012, 3:00 am by Lee Davis
Given that black people make up 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, but 37.9 percent of those in federal and state prisons, an overwhelmingly large number of black people are denied the right to vote when compared to other races.Disenfranchisement also impacts the national political debate by removing millions of possible constituents from the voter rolls. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  The Wong Kim Ark tale is a positive one – and important, as birthright citizenship has indeed proved foundational to the empowerment of successive immigrant groups in the U.S. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Advance work not only precedes solutions but also the political stream, the politics of what gets defined as urgent, “unholy” or “evil,” dangerous or threatening, public or private, possible or impossible. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 8:22 am by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Louis • Organization for Black Struggle The post Ferguson Legal Defense Committee Issues 48-Hour Emergency Call To Action appeared first on . [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
Woodson.[5] And assertions of an inextricable relation between education and capacity for equal democratic citizenship have been woven into political projects of multiple social and political movements as they have claimed their own equal citizenship and pushed for a fuller constitutional democracy: from the Freed person’s movements to create schools after the Civil War, to the Black Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Schools, and the Chicano Movement’s… [read post]
25 May 2018, 9:21 pm
The new leadership introduces an expansion of black representation at the upper echelons of the government. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 11:15 am
There seems to be new space to explore overlapping rights and regulatory global politics and to move from symbolic to substantive rights fulfilment. [read post]