On Thursday evening in front of the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue, Josemar Trujillo spoke out about De Blasio answering only to the Big Real Estate executives who were with the Mayor at a re-election fundraiser.
Racism and Prejudice articles on Democracy Chronicles
Racism is a belief that all members of each race possess abilities specific to that race, so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race. Also check out our section on World Democracy or our more general articles on History.
The Long History of Falsified Voter Fraud Allegations
Racism’s dependence on voter fraud allegations to deny rights are nothing new in American history
Brazilian Black Lives Matter Movement Takes Root
Worldwide reach of movement is evident in growth of badly needed Brazilian Black Lives Matter
PHOTO GALLERY: Quentin Tarantino for #RiseUpOctober!
Film Director Quentin Tarantino joined #RiseUpOctober in Times Square with the families of those who’ve been murdered by police all over the United States
Alabama Voting Laws and the Jim Crow Era
Restrictions designed to repress African-American participation are central to Alabama voting laws
The Overseer: On Myths and the Search For Truth
If only certain types of crimes are reported by the media, then there is the mistaken impression that the rates of these reported crimes are rising; not having to do with how the data is gathered and disseminated
Label Me YOUth: On Young People and the Justice System
It is commonly understood that people of all kinds break the law: female, male, white, black, old, young… Yet not all of them are caught, accused, and stigmatized bearing the label of criminal. Not all.
Black Lives Matter Will Not Endorse Presidential Candidate
Supporters of Black Lives Matter will have to look elsewhere for advice to support them in vote
Every Four Years: Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy
The people are the single most important part of the electoral system, not the party elites. But, if we continue to do what we have always done, we will just get more of what we have always gotten.
Divide and Rule: A Failed Electoral System
Since the beginning of recorded human history systems of hierarchy have been set up not only to control and keep the masses in their places, but to make men superior to women, one race superior to another, and the rich superior to the poor.