Freedom Dreams, Twenty Years Later
Freedom Dreams, Twenty Years Later When historian Robin D. G. Kelley published his seminal book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination in 2002, he hoped to inspire the racial justice activists of time to…
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Legal Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw: We Must Reclaim Critical Race Theory from Right-Wing Fearmongering
Democracy Now! speaks with pioneering scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about the growing Republican effort to ban critical race theory — an academic field that conservatives have invoked as a catchall phrase to censor a…
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Tragedy in Texas: 46 Found Dead in Suspected Smuggling Attempt Amid Biden's Harsh Border Enforcement
At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in one of the deadliest tragedies in recent decades. It comes as the Biden administration continues to enforce harsh border policies…
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"That's So Black" VOL 4: Influencers
MediaJustice is proud to present “That’s So Black,” a limited series spotlighting how Black people created Internet culture as we know it today. In "VOL 4: Influencers," we explain how social media influencers only exist…
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"That's So Black," VOL 3: #MeToo
MediaJustice is proud to present “That’s So Black,” a limited series spotlighting how Black people created Internet culture as we know it today. In VOL 3, we explain how Black women have used media and…
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"That's So Black" VOL 1: Ballroom Slang
MediaJustice is proud to present “That’s So Black,” a limited series spotlighting how Black people created Internet culture as we know it today. In "Volume 1: Ballroom Slang" we break down how white media has…
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Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
In a Juneteenth special, we mark the federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We speak…
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Poor People’s March on Washington Saturday Demands “Moral Reset” on Poverty, Voting Rights, ClimatePoor People’s March on Washington Saturday Demands “Moral Reset” on Poverty, Voting Rights, Climate
We speak with Bishop William Barber and Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about plans for Saturday’s Moral March on Washington and to the Polls to demand the government address key issues…
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Is it Possible to Realize the Unfulfilled Promise of Juneteenth?
Is it Possible to Realize the Unfulfilled Promise of Juneteenth? Until the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd and the mass uprising it sparked, most non-Black Americans had never heard of Juneteenth. The…
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When Liberty Burns Trailer
Thought-provoking, informative, upsetting, and worth knowing is the 1980 race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida over the death of Arthur McDuffie, and the acquittal of the four Miami Dade Police officers involved. When Liberty…
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FSTV Speaks: The Evil of White Supremacy
An act of white terrorism fueled by racism has taken the lives of 10 people in Buffalo’s Black community. The massacre was a result of white supremacist ideology that has been given a mainstream platform…
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Numbers Don't Lie
The name of the victims from the Buffalo Massacre are given. Randi Rhodes breaks down the percentage of how many mass shootings have been racially, or religiously motivated and related to White Supremacy and those…
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The Roots of Buffalo’s Racist Massacre
The Roots of Buffalo’s Racist Massacre A white supremacist teenage man shot and killed ten people and injured three at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday. The vast majority of the…
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Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY
On May 14, 2022, another racially motivated mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York. There were 13 victims in total, 11 of those victims were Black and 10 of the 13 lost their life. The…
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Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi: Republicans Must Address How White Supremacists Target Youth
Democracy Now! speaks to prominent antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi about the epidemic of young white males who commit white supremacist domestic terrorism. This comes as an 18-year-old white shooter sought out a majority-Black neighborhood…
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Hypocrisy Hits the Republican Party Again
Side-by-side clips show how unfair Republicans can be. Naming peaceful protesters "goons" and saying calling January 6th an insurrection is "Beyond dishonest" shows the hypocrisy within the party. A double standard lurks within politics, particularly,…
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Inside Jecorey Arthur’s fight for Black Louisville
Jecorey Arthur is a musician, activist, educator, and is now the youngest person elected to Louisville’s Metro Council. Representing District 4, which is a predominantly Black community in Louisville, he is fighting against systemic oppression…
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What defunding the police looks like for this Kansas City barber
Joey Allen is the owner of Royalty Barbershop in Kansas City, Kansas. Weeks after the murder of George Floyd, Joey sat with us to discuss his reality as a Black man in America and what…
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Minneapolis artist on the protests after George Floyd's murder - Roxy's Revolution Manifesto
Roxy Vail, a Minneapolis-based artist, shares her firsthand account of her time on the front lines protesting police brutality just days after the murder of George Floyd. The Liberation Will Be Televised is a documentary…
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