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It is time for Duke to publicly divest from any company or parent company that in whole or in part manufactures and/or markets weapons of war to the public.
Today, the Duke Faculty Union, the Duke Graduate Student Union and other organizations of workers in higher education are at the leading edge of why new kinds of worker organizing are essential.
Upon stepping through the glass doors, one is greeted by a single word, “black.”—in lower-case, not taunting or privileging any definitive blackness. And yet, the title bears a period; it’s a statement.
The #MeToo movement demands equal respect; it is far past time for women and their work to be treated and valued equally to men.
While drugs and alcohol are at the core of the destruction and incomprehensible demoralization that addicts and alcoholics so profoundly experience, they are not the problem.
The pursuit of justice and equality before the law have been elusive in Durham as in other American communities struggling with criminal justice reform.
Artificial reproductive technology has been key in granting sexual and gender minorities in America with reproductive freedom.
Movements of black agency have been labelled “disruptive” because they challenge the social norm of white supremacy and call attention to the darkest parts of our history.
The first step towards change is understanding, and spreading awareness. Justice can only be brought about after clearly identifying injustice.
We are the beneficiaries of this inequality. We are implicated in its persistence.
Your white face in a crowd means something; it is a form of protest.
For the red-voters joining the traditionally blue anti-pipeline struggle, this violation of property rights is the central concern.
Every time you see the PCRs walking around and feel a wave of stress and anxiety, take five minutes and google random careers.
Jenkins’ work provides a platform for anyone who once thought they were alone in that conversation, for anyone who felt bogged down by clouds of confusion and opposition.
It is liberal movements that are well organized and explicitly characterized that must be loudly supported.
Historically disadvantaged communities are often the targets of hate speech, and the near explicit backing that nationalist groups in the country receive should not be entirely surprising. It is a pre-existing condition of our country to use our laws to justify the most or near greatest forms of invisible inequity.
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Justice is the search for truth, the search for equity with knowledge gained from prosecutors, defendants, society and history, but that search involves the lived experiences of women and men upended by systemic injustices, like fixed bail systems and mandatory minimum sentences, that have sent countless people of color to mass incarceration.
Philando Castile’s death was a painful reminder that our justice system reserves justice for some and not all.
Teaching in North Carolina is a unique kind of experience.
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