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Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
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Antidote to Soft Power: Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

by Gerald Horne and Anthony Ballas February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

As a chronicle of how power often colludes with culture in the construction of a mythological past, the film ought to provoke us to consider how the reconstruction of our histories is of utmost importance in our present era

Militant Strategy
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Militant Strategy: The Black South's Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Tradition

by Julian Rose December 12, 2024December 11, 2024
The Dems think they’re entitled to the youth vote. They aren’t.
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The Dems think they're entitled to the youth vote. They aren't.

by Delaney Vandergrift November 20, 2024November 20, 2024
Louisiana Progressive Community Leader Mel Manuel Runs to Unseat Rep. Steve Scalise
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Mel Manuel hopes to unseat ultra-conservative Rep. Steve Scalise

by Amelia Parenteau November 5, 2024December 5, 2024
We Are The BreadCrumbs: What Trans Alabamians Already Know About The Election
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We Are The BreadCrumbs: What Trans Alabamians Already Know About The Election

by T.C. Caldwell and Jose Vazquez November 4, 2024November 4, 2024
Annunciation House
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Annunciation House and the Illegal Humanitarian

by Emmy Brett November 1, 2024November 4, 2024
On Being Undocumented in Houston’s Gaza Solidarity Student Movement
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On Being Undocumented in Houston's Gaza Solidarity Student Movement

by Anonymous October 31, 2024October 31, 2024
Carolina Daze Stage
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Janelle Monáe, Tierra Whack, and Lute help promote voting at Carolina Daze

by Caitlin Leggett October 30, 2024October 31, 2024
Florida’s LGBTQ+ community defies queer repression with advocacy and preservation
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Florida's LGBTQ+ community defies queer repression with advocacy & preservation

by Cordell Jones October 30, 2024October 30, 2024
Dear Reproductive Justice Movement Show Up for Palestinian Solidarity
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Reproductive Justice Movement: Show Up for Palestinian Solidarity

by Ja’Loni Owens October 24, 2024October 23, 2024
UNC expands its use of AI surveillance following spring encampments
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UNC expands its use of AI surveillance following spring encampments

by Jordyn Cooper October 23, 2024December 10, 2024
ICC
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No one is coming to save us. Not even the ICC.

by Ja’Loni Owens October 17, 2024October 17, 2024
Mckesson v Doe
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Mckesson v. Doe, Southern Dissent, and Protest Repression

by Sierra Lyons October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
A collage of repression at pro-Palestine protests at Tulane in Spring 2024
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The Tulane Book Festival, sponsored by friends of Netanyahu

by Drew Hawkins and Delaney Nolan September 26, 2024September 27, 2024
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Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression

by Gabrielle A. Perry July 25, 2024July 25, 2024
The Hell Inside Hell: Solitary Confinement in Texas Hides the Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls
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The Hell Inside Hell

by Kwaneta Harris May 30, 2024May 30, 2024
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The Southern Truth About Communism

by Tea Troutman and Sherronda J. Brown April 23, 2024December 26, 2024
Boiling on the Inside: Texas Inmates Weather Extreme Heat in non-Air Conditioned Prisons
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Boiling on the Inside

by Kwaneta Harris April 11, 2024April 16, 2024
In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Author Keith LaMar's execution date was moved to 2027 after 30 years on Death Row in Ohio, awaiting the death penalty.
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A Death Row Reprieve: One man's bittersweet reflection

by Keith LaMar November 16, 2023November 15, 2023
A boarded up abandoned house is graffitied with a "Stop Cop City" tag, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Activists with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition are trying to get the signatures of more than 70,000 Atlanta residents by Aug. 14 to force a referendum allowing voters to decide the fate of a proposed police and firefighter training center. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Mutual aid allows movements to resist and transform oppressive systems. It could also be what ultimately sustains us against climate change.
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Mutual aid strengthens ATL's abolitionist organizing work

by Julian Rose September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
The author, Mira Ugwuadu, posing for a portrait in the months after graduating from high school in Marietta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Funding, education, and safety are at the top of the list of demands to dismantle the youth mental health stigma in Georgia schools.
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In Georgia, we need proactive—not reactive—mental health support in schools

by Mira Ugwuadu September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
A wheelchair standing between other chairs in a school classroom. Disabled students are overlooked in the youth mental health crisis. How navigating an impossible system drove one disabled student to activism in their quest for solutions to the youth mental health crisis.
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Young people struggle within a capitalist, ableist system. We can change it.

by Marrow Woods September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Dakerri Rhone of the Human Rights Campaign speaks during a news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature, on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. (John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign) The mental health toll of anti-LGBTQ+ bills on Tennessee students. Tennessee has passed a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills attacking students' rights, mental health, and well-being.
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LGBTQ+ students in Tennessee have never been more terrified

by Lauren Barton September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Young people gather during a rally held by Fairness Campaign to advance LGBTQ rights, Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in the Rotunda at the State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) Finding hope and solidarity for LGBTQ Kentucky youth. A trans student on how they and other LGBTQ Kentucky youth are dealing with the mental health fallout of Senate Bill 150 in schools.
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For LGBTQ+ young Kentuckians, community matters for mental health

by Ray Loux September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Southern youth are speaking out on the mental health crisis, the challenges they face, and anxieties they hope to overcome.
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Notes on 'In Their Own Words,' a series on the youth mental health crisis

by Rainesford Stauffer September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
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Young Southerners speak out: Reflections on the youth mental health crisis

by Scalawag Community September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Men from the Brevard County Jail fill sand bags for local residents to combat flooding caused by high water levels from Hurricane Irma on October 5, 2017 in Sharpes, Florida. Credit: Paul Hennessy/Alamy Live News.
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Florida's jails put incarcerated people's lives at risk during hurricane season

by Angel D’Angelo September 12, 2023September 27, 2023
Prison workers making uniforms at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) Rehabilitation stops being a priority for officials when it conflicts with prison labor—abruptly shutting down programs, citing labor costs.
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The Profitable Prisoner

by Antoine Davis September 6, 2023September 5, 2023
Henry Drake was convicted for a 1975 murder he didn’t commit—twice. Even after another man confessed to the crime, he still spent 12 years on Death Row seeking exoneration and battling the classism and legal misconduct of Georgia's judicial system.
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A Close Shave with Death

by Lillah Lawson September 1, 2023September 1, 2023
Federal receiver Robert Sillen in the prison yard at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, on June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Prop 66 doesn't dismantle California's Death Row—it expedites our executions

by Timothy James Young August 30, 2023August 29, 2023

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