Newly minted NYPD Officers attend the New York City Police Graduation Ceremony for the Graduating Class of December 2017 held at the Beacon Theater on December 28, 2017 in New York City. (Photo: Mpi43/MediaPunch/IPX)
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Police Killed More Americans Last Year Than Mass Shooters

Some 590 Americans were killed in mass shootings last year, that figure almost pales in comparison to the number of Americans subjected to gun violence by police.

by Ebony Slaughter Johnson

America’s Youth Are Rejecting Capitalism, What Do They Want Instead?

There’s growing evidence that today’s young adults are strongly dissatisfied with fundamental aspects of our political and economic system. Specifically, growing numbers are rejecting capitalism.

America’s Youth Are Rejecting Capitalism, What Do They Want Instead?

Today’s youth are increasingly unhappy with the way their elders are running the world. Their ire was most recently expressed when 

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March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause

The dynamism and interracial character of last week’s March For Our Lives rallies provides further evidence that American workers have a chance of challenging the wealthy for a bigger piece of the pie only when they put their tribal differences aside to fight together.

March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause

WASHINGTON -- Google the name “Tallulah Bankhead” and you will be regaled (or mortified if your mores tend to the Victorian) with tales of the actor’s libertine appetites, her breakout performance in the Hitchcock classic Lifeboat, or her half-camp, half-vamp villainess in the 1960s Batman television series. Wikipedia references her patrician mien

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Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”

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School Administrators Crackdown on Anti-Violence Student Protests

“They tell us in announcement everyday to be the change you want to see in the world. And then when we tried to do it, they told us we couldn’t.”

School Administrators Crackdown on Anti-Violence Student Protests

Ten days before American student outrage over gun violence triggered multitudes across the U.S and around the world to join in “March For Our Lives” protests; many US high school educators and other adults provided students with strident lessons in assholelisity. During the March 14, 2018 National School Walkout Day staged by

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Linn Washington Jr.

Linn Washington, Jr. is a founder of This Can’t Be Happening and a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, (AK Press). He lives in Philadelphia.

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Millions March Across the US Demanding Gun Control

Students and supporters took to the streets in up to 800 separate ‘March For Our Lives’ rallies across the US, demanding stricter gun control.

Millions March Across the US Demanding Gun Control

WASHINGTON — Led by the survivors of the massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a record-breaking number of students and adults filled Washington’s historic Pennsylvania Avenue in a massive show of support for strong national gun control. Aided by survivors of the elementary school shooting in Newtown,

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Mark Gruenberg

Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

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