Social Justice
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NBA Creates Social Justice Award Named for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The NBA announced Thursday a new award named for Hall of Famer and civil rights activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that will…
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Gen Z and Millennials Debate Social Justice Issues
Throughout much of the year, as District residents young and old have combated COVID-19 and racial injustice, year-to-date figures have…
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Fight for Equal Pay, Gender Parity Heats Up
Despite the United States touting itself as the bastion of freedom and equality, women in this country — despite comprising…
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Barber to Meet Pope Francis at Vatican on Thanksgiving Day
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has confirmed that he and a delegation of "moral, workers' rights, anti-poverty and ecological…
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Black Lives Matter Movement Experiencing Growing Pains
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the…
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Black Lives Matter Isn’t Stopping
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (Politico) – Memo to 2016 candidates from Black Lives Matter: We will continue to disrupt your events…
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Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and the Political Wisdom of Holding Allies Accountable
(Brookings Institution) – Last Saturday, Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running to the left of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic…
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A Year After Ferguson, Washington Still Working on Police Reforms
(CBS News) – One year ago, after the death of Michael Brown and the overblown police response to largely peaceful…
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Black Lives Matter: How a Death in Ferguson Sparked a Movement in America
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed…
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In a Change from 2008, Clinton Talking Often about Race
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton…
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