Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist, left behind a legacy of Black empowerment that helped transform Black political representation in the United States, paving the way for future leaders such as Barack Obama.
Former President Barack Obama has urged Democrats to stop being ideologically stuck and start building homes to address the housing crisis, while some critics argue that his previous administration’s housing response prioritized banks over borrowers and left many behind.
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor’s career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this “Big Deception”.
American authoritarianism is a decades-old phenomenon, fueled by the expansion of executive power, economic inequality, and the political exploitation of national crises, and cannot be solely blamed on Donald Trump, but rather requires a dismantling of the systems that made him possible.
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We interrupt this coverage of the elections for a bit of reality that seems more like unreality….