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Trump’s Cuba report borrowed heavily from my book on an anti-imperialist movement – but twisted the arguments

For decades after the Cuban Revolution’s victory in 1959, influential anticommunist circles in the United States claimed that Cuba’s communist government sowed social division and allied with left-wing groups to help defeat Washington during the Cold War.

The Conversation

Banning leftwing activists from entering Britain: an illiberal move with a long history in this country

The cancellation of Cenk Uygur’s and Hasan Piker’s visas tells us that the home secretary’s powers to police speech are too broad, says campaigner and barrister DK Renton

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'I can’t breathe': Why Henry Nowak's fatal stabbing by a Sikh man could become British Right's 'Black Lives Matter'

Like most memes that go viral on social media, it’s derivative and reductive, like a Yuval Harari offering. Whether it’s raining, how one reports said rain, and how one explains why it’s raining depends upon one’s availability heuristic, political leanings, scientific understanding, and even theological beliefs, or lack thereof.

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Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism

Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church leaders took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times titled “Black Power.” Their densely worded statement called on national leaders, “white churchmen,” Black citizens and the mass media to correct the country’s racial power imbalance.…

The Conversation

Gaza’s social media activists are a potent force for change in the fight against racism

Do not dismiss the new breed of protesters: they are following in the grand tradition of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks

The Guardian - UK

From sit-ins in the 1960s to uprisings in the new millennium, Harry Belafonte served as a champion of youth activism

Of all the contributions for which Harry Belafonte will be remembered, perhaps none is more enduring than the celebrated entertainer’s lifelong support for youth activism.

The Conversation

How Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers changed the civil rights movement

Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed. His new book is Saying It Loud.

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First Thing: Monkeypox fatality confirmed in Los Angeles

The death is the first in the state and possibly in the country, with the individual being immunocompromised and hospitalized. Plus, who won big at the Emmys

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

Secret Foreign Office unit distributed literature from fake sources to discredit Stokely Carmichael

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