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• Pulling down statues? It’s a tradition that dates back to U.S. independence
  10 July 2020, by siawi3

  Fireworks, bands, and cookouts are essential ingredients of any Fourth of July celebration. What’s usually not on the menu is toppling statues, ripping down signs, or burning portraits. But in the days following the new nation’s declaration of independence, Americans went on a frenzy of destruction that makes today’s attacks on Confederate and other symbols of white supremacy pale by comparison.

• The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson
  20 July 2020, by siawi3

  As Trump vows to smash leftist movements, we take a comprehensive look at the life of the revolutionary Black socialist, anti-fascist, and artist Paul Robeson. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson rose to international fame as a singer and actor, but committed himself to the liberation of oppressed people across the globe and was a tenacious fighter for the freedom of Black people in the U.S. Robeson was heavily surveilled by the FBI and CIA, dragged before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and was stripped of his passport by the U.S. government.

• The rise of white identity politics
  20 July 2020, by siawi3

  Even a decade ago, discussions of “white identity” belonged to the fringes. Today it has become a significant political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. The origins of the politics of identity lie not on the left but on the reactionary right.

• USA: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  26 July 2020, by siawi3

  Rothstein brilliantly breaks down how segregation was enforced at all levels of housing policy and practices, from the federal level down to local municipalities, from national banks to local realtors and police departments, across the US. He shows how greatly housing segregation has disadvantaged African Americans by connecting housing to education, taxation, and jobs.

• Senegal: The mark of the former colonizer
  26 July 2020, by siawi3

  The Faidherbe Must Fall campaign wants statues of Louis Faidherbe, a colonial general both in Senegal and France, to be removed. They argue for the emancipation of public spaces from the glorification of a hideous past.

• South Africa: The second lives of zombie monuments
  26 July 2020, by siawi3

  How do we deal with the unfinished business of the past?

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  27 juillet 2020, par siawi3
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  4 août 2020, par siawi3
• There Is No Such Thing as a Plain Reading of the Bible
  27 July 2020, by siawi3

  By definition, all sacred texts are interpreted and reinterpreted throughout history.

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  16 août 2020, par siawi3

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