Young Arab and Black Men Jailed and Fined in France’s Riot Trials
Fast-track trials deliver hefty sentences for petty crimes committed during riots sparked by police killing teenager
Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in “The…
Judge Orders Proud Boys to Pay More Than $1M Over Destruction of Black DC Church’s Property: Report
By Maya Boddie / AlterNet A DC judge has ordered a group of Proud Boys members to pay over $1 million for their role in destroying property belonging to a…
Military Academies Can Still Consider Race in Admissions, but the Rest of the Nation’s Colleges and Universities Cannot, Court Rules
The Conversation reached out to three legal scholars to explain what the decision means for students, colleges and universities, and ultimately the nation’s future.
Systemic Racism and the US War Machine
We must realize that a nation so profoundly affected by individual and structural racism at home is apt to be affected by such racism in its approach to war.
The White House Cannot Ignore the Islamophobic Watchlist—It Must End
This whole nightmare of a list might be defensible if it made us safer, but it doesn’t.
Montana Becomes First State to Ban TikTok Amid Concerns of First Amendment Violations
Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a law that will make Montana the first state to ban TikTok in the US, following a series of escalations against the video-sharing app.
Looking at the Skeletons Inside the NFL’s Closet
Renowned sports journalist Dave Zirin talks about his latest documentary, which explores the unjust, unfair and deeply racist history of the NFL coupled with its commitment to nationalism, militarism and…
Trumpism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Donald Trump’s political demise is a personal implosion...Yet, the movement he inspired and instigated is very much alive.
The Racism of the Supreme Court’s Supermajority Was on Full Display This Week
By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout During more than five hours of oral arguments in two cases that will probably spell the death of affirmative action in colleges and universities, the…
In Neocolonial Rant, EU Says Europe Is ‘Garden’ Superior To Rest of World’s Barbaric ‘Jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South.…
Eduardo Carreon: Adopting the Mindset of the Oppressor
Indigenous Los Angeles psychology graduate student Eduardo Carreon analyzes the mindset of disgraced former LA City Council leader, a Latina whose racist bile scorned Black and gay colleagues and others,…
Stephen King Reviews New Dystopian Novel That Mirrors Present Day
In what could become one of the next great dystopian novels, Stephen King finds myriad events that mirror the reality of the world today in his New York Times review…
Boyah J. Farah: Escaping Somalia’s Harrowing Genocide Only to Face American Racism
On this week’s Scheer Intelligence, Boyah Farah, a young refugee from Somalia’s hellish civil war describes his family’s narrow escape from death and their arrival in the placid suburbs of…