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The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates.
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Land rights organizations and farmers are worried this historic trend will become worse under the Trump administration as it dismantles policies that have promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion and prosecuted civil rights violations.
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The discrimination ranges from denial of USDA loans at the federal level to the seizure of land through discriminatory eminent domain policies at the state and local level to outright theft by White neighbors.
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Black farmers have historically endured generations of discrimination in land ownership. 🧵. Read more here:
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President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable.
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Donald Trump unleashed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on cities with dense and racially diverse migrant populations to round up anyone suspected of breaking laws. History shows our nation’s track record for allowing hate to drive legislation.
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"Women of color are often forced to navigate hostile environments in which their humor and mirth are scrutinized through sexist and racist lenses.".
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"Finding your joy, especially during challenging times, is not a luxury; it is a radical act of self-preservation.".
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Contributing senior editor @ourobororoboruo, the granddaughter of Chinese revolutionaries, chronicles the unimaginable choices her elders made and the heavy toll their violent resistance exacted on her family.
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The so-called criticism levied against Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, peddles in both “angry” and “uppity” Black woman likability stereotypes and hypersexualized Jezebel tropes. Read more here: .
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Linda Jones has learned to find the joy in life’s unexpected journeys. As she writes in her essay for The Emancipator, “Finding your joy, especially during challenging times, is not a luxury; it is a radical act of self-preservation.”.
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U.S. @RepPressley’s #SXSW conversation was an intimate glimpse into what it is like to grow up as a child forged in resistance and become a legislator whose North Star is firmly on justice for all people. Here are some moments worth revisiting.
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Five years after Breonna Taylor was killed by police in her own home during a botched raid, her mother, Tamika Palmer, continues to fight for justice and carry the weight of a world that moved on too quickly. Via @19thnews .
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“To inspire laughter is more than fluff, more than diversion. It can bite with teeth that hurt, it can pour the tea that scalds. For women of color, it is a way to speak truth to power – with style,” @ourobororoboruo writes for The Emancipator.
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On social media platforms, journalists and immigration advocates are sounding the alarm on an escalation in politicized immigration enforcement and point to past instances of immigration law driven by intolerance for political dissent.
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Khalil was transported from his New York City residence to an ICE detention center in Louisiana, according to the ICE detainee tracker. Historically, despotic regimes have targeted universities – typically places where progressive thought and resistance flourish.
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Trump vowed then that, were he elected, he would crush such “anti-American” dissent. He doubled down on this position on Monday, threatened that the arrest was the first of “many to come,” and urged the nation’s colleges and universities to comply.
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Khalil is a green card holder, legal permanent resident of the U.S., and is married to an American citizen who is eight months pregnant. Pro-Palestinian protests roiled college campuses last spring amid tensions over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent leader of pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University as part of President Donald Trump’s opening salvo crackdown on student activists who oppose hostile governmental policies. 🧵
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LIVE NOW ❗️Learn about key legislative initiatives and the urgent movement-building steps needed to protect abortion care. Join @amberwaves and @RepPressley for a thought-provoking fireside chat on the state of reproductive freedom in 2025 at @sxsw:
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