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06.17.2020 — One Mo’pinion: The Fact of The Matter, On Breonna & Justice

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Michael R Hicks, Lead Editor, TheLENS Most Louisvillians just want to the protesters to stop and be quiet, but not

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Living on the Fault Line: ADOS, the Protests, and Repair (paulsowers.com)

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I guess I keep wondering how well our national outcry in this moment maps onto the actual problem. How it

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Focus After Floyd: Excising Racerot in America (paulsowers.com)

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Almost instinctively we rush to the business of likening all forms of power—be it ICE or the military industrial complex—to

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The Balance Line: America’s 21st Century Problem & the #ADOS Movement (paulsowers.com)

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In 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois declared in his Address to the Nations of the World, “The problem of the twentieth century

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Left Unsaid: #ADOS & the Roses

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1.1 Ryan Grim’s book, We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise

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Saturday Morning Solutions 4.25.20 (soundcloud.com, WLOU 104.7 FM Louisville, KY)

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When it comes to reparations, differences in black lineage matter (Commentary, Antonio Moore, #ADOS in USA Today)

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Blacks who are the descendants of slaves and black immigrants have divergent histories, levels of wealth What we are now

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And They Will Moralize with More Lies: #ADOS Story Time With Jess Aiwuyor (paulsowers.com)

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In what is without a doubt the most reductive, strained, and flawed analogy thus far given for what it means

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Nearly 6 Decades After the Civil Rights Act, Why Do Black Workers Still Have to Hustle to Get Ahead? (TIME Magazine)

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(Excerpt) But black Americans have to hustle more. A white family of four living at the poverty line has about

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Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

Happy Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth!

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