Hey, White Working Class, Donald Trump Is Already Screwing You OverThe Daily Beast - Joy-Ann Reid Dear Working-Class White Trump Voter, You’re probably going to read this as sour grapes, and I certainly am sour about a family of kleptocrats moving …
Van Jones: Only a ‘Love Army’ Will Conquer TrumpRolling Stone - Tim Dickinson Van Jones has had some quotable moments in his side gig with CNN recently – telling former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski he was “being a …
Can you be a feminist and vote for Donald Trump? Yes, you canThe Guardian - Carmen Fishwick and Guardian readersWe were wrong to presume women would vote for Hillary Clinton because of her gender. Here’s why Trump supporters still call themselves feminists A man who uses misogynistic language and has been accused
All over the internet, women are starting to organize to win the next electionBusiness Insider - Julie BortNow some Clinton supporters, particularly women, are getting restless and asking themselves: What can we do now? The answer for many: Let's organize to win the next election — and get more women involved
Politics How Hillary Clinton lostCNN - By Tami Luhby(CNN) — Hillary Clinton just couldn't hold onto the Obama coalition. And that proved to be a large part of her undoing. African-American, Latino and younger voters failed to show up at the polls in sufficient
White Americans have a very long history of getting violent when minorities exercise their right to voteQuartz - By Jesse RhodesThe 2016 American presidential campaign has renewed concerns about the specter of violence in American electoral politics. The campaign has been marked by tense—and occasionally violent—altercations between
Rise, sisters, rise. Defeat Donald TrumpThe Guardian - Eve EnslerHillary Clinton is not perfect, and we must push her. But if Trump is elected, permission is given to degrade, deny, diminish and destroy us and our rights Dear women of America and men who love women,
I thought I was just scared of Trump – but it's his America I fearThe Guardian - Jessica ValentiMisogyny, racism and bigotry won’t go away if Donald Trump loses next week’s election; it was already here before he drew it out into the mainstream With the presidential election less than a week away,
The Tide of Hate Directed Against Jewish JournalistsThe Atlantic - Emma GreenA new report finds that anti-Semitic death threats have increased significantly during this election cycle. The numbers are simultaneously horrifying and clinical: Between August 2015 and July 2016, at
How pink sweets are challenging gender prejudice in south Asian communitiesThe Guardian - Pankti Mehta Kadakia in MumbaiThe Pink Ladoo project in Australia, Canada and the UK takes a traditional sweet shared at the birth of a son to say that girls should be celebrated too When Raj Khaira’s brother was born, ladoos, a popular
Michelle Obama: This issue is personal for meCNN - By Michelle Obama, Special to CNN(CNN) — For me, education has never been simply a policy issue -- it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard
Play button 'Idiocracy' Is Bad, ActuallyVICE - Rick PaulasYou know who'd find the movie hilarious? Hitler. You don't have to wade too far into the #hottakes to find someone saying this year's political shitshow is "just like Idiocracy." It's been such a hot that
Donald Trump’s white supremacist delusions: Why does the GOP nominee think “race riots” are breaking out across America?Salon - Chauncey DeVega(AP/Patrick Semansky) October 5, 2016 6:44PM (UTC) I have finally finished reading Joe Lansdale’s wonderful book “The Bottoms.” There are some great passages where the main character Harry Crane and his
Play button Feminist Bookstore Slams 'Portlandia' And Says Show Can No Longer Film ThereNPR - Bill ChappellIn the TV comedy version of Portland, Ore., the bookstore is called Women and Women First. In real life, it's In Other Words — and the shop is using frank terms to say the Portlandia show is no longer
Jordanian women IT gurus don't need men by their sidesmiddleeasteye.net AMMAN - Hanan Khader’s phone rings. She picks it up, only to hang up immediately. “Where were we?” she asks, having gotten rid of the interruption. In …
Trump Tells a Mostly White N.C. Audience Blacks Worse Off Than ‘Ever, Ever, Ever’The Wall Street Journal - Beth ReinhardRemarks come after Obama said the Republican missed a 'civics lesson about slavery and Jim Crow' KENANSVILLE, N.C. – Republican presidential nominee declared African Americans are worse off than “ever,
Georgetown Will Offer An Edge In Admissions To Descendants Of SlavesNPR - Camila DomonoskeGeorgetown University will be offering an admissions edge to descendants of enslaved people sold to fund the school, officials announced on Thursday. Jesuit priests connected to the private Catholic university
The only reason Racists Anonymous seems weird is that almost nobody in America admits they’re racistVox - Jenée Desmond-HarrisIn Concord, North Carolina, a group called Racists Anonymous has been meeting for the past month. It’s based in Trinity United Church of Christ fellowship hall, and the organizers are hoping other congregations
White Lives Matter To Be Listed As Hate Group By Southern Poverty Law CenterHuffPost - Ed Mazza“We are listing them because they are clearly white supremacists." White Lives Matter will soon be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC said the status will be reflected
Maine Gov. Paul LePage: you shoot “the enemy” in war, and people of color are “the enemy” right nowVox - German Lopez“The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin.” In defending himself from accusations of racism and homophobia on Friday, Maine Gov.
Juanita Broaddrick Wants To Be BelievedBuzzFeed - Katie J.M. BakerVAN BUREN, Arkansas — Juanita Broaddrick joined Twitter in 2009. The 73-year-old retired nursing home operator from Van Buren, Arkansas, tweeted a few times about the weather, Weight Watchers, and drinking
Sanders’ Former Press Secretary Says She Experienced Racism On The TrailBuzzFeed - Tamerra GriffinBernie Sanders’ former national press secretary says she experienced repeated incidents of racism on the campaign trail, and at one point broke down in tears in her car. In an interview for Lenny, an newsletter
Desperate journeys: 3,034 refugees die in seven monthsAl Jazeera - Anealla SafdarAt least 3,034 refugees have died en route to Europe so far in 2016, a sharp increase from last year, says the IOM. Almost as many Europe-bound asylum seekers and irregular migrants have died on desperate
US judges overturn a North Carolina voting law that targeted African Americans with “almost surgical precision”Quartz - By Tim FernholzThe Reverend William Barber II is having a blessed day—less than twenty-four hours after he rocked the Democratic national convention with a prophetic call for social justice, a federal appeals court out
Girls Who Code: Brightening the Future for Women in TechHuffPost - Tricia BarlowJanuary 29th, 2009, wasn't your typical Thursday, at least not for me anyway. On this day, President Obama signed his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Quite simply, this law
For affluent blacks, wealth doesn't stop racial profilingCNN Business - by Tanzina VegaWhen Ronald S. Sullivan starts teaching his class at Harvard Law School each semester, he asks his students how many of them have been spread eagle over a police car. Every year, it's the same answer:
Corporate Sponsors Opt Out of Republican ConventionTIME - Tessa BerensonMajor companies are deciding not to sponsor this summer’s Republican convention in Cleveland, or are limiting their sponsorship. According to Bloomberg, Wells Fargo & Co., United Parcel Service Inc., Solutions
The Extraordinarily Common Violence Against LGBT People in AmericaThe Atlantic - Emma GreenThe attack on a gay club in Orlando on Sunday is not an isolated crime. The attack at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday is the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history. The father of Omar Mateen, the
