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Food Sovereignty and Activism
Our Kitchen Table’s Food Diversity Project An activist organization named Our Kitchen Table (OKT) confronts the structural racism responsible for the food insecurity, environmental health issues, and...
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
LGBTQ Muslims’ Struggle with Defining Civil Rights Martin Luther King Jr once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” As the collective composition of the country evolves, so does...
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When You Don’t Know Your Rights
How Civil Rights Education Leads to Literacy Despite the fact that most people equate Florida with tourism a la Disney or sunny beaches, Florida has historically been an agricultural state. In fact,...
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Demanding Zero Tolerance for Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
Fifty years after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights offices of the US Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued detailed guidance on...
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From Denial to Creation
Meeting the Opportunity Goals of Title VI Today It’s been 50 years since Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed denying opportunities “because of race,” color and national origin in US...
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Housing Rights in New York City
Revisiting Strategies from the 1960s for Creating Change Today One focus of the Civil Rights movement was accessible housing and many national organizations were involved in organizing and ensuring...
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The Zero-Sum Game of White Supremacy
Sexuality and gender-based civil rights and religion are now largely considered incompatible. In the United States, the media consistently poses this as a case of irreconcilable values, beliefs, and...
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The Annual Spectacle of the Super Bowl A rabbi, a priest, an imam, and a Buddhist monk walk into a bar. Just kidding. They actually get into a Toyota truck, meet up with nuns at a football game, and...
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White Racism in the White House
Does Trump’s racist language help or hinder efforts to expose racist policies? Has the racism underlying Trump’s candidacy and presidency ever been in doubt? He rehearsed racist stereotypes about...
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Stonewall Mythology
How we tell the story of Stonewall matters. This June marks the fiftieth anniversary of the riots at The Stonewall Inn in New York City. The days-long series of marches and protests that immediately...
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Monuments to Hate
We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in US life is a direct struggle that calls for direct action by us all against racism. Are...
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