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GUESTS: Catriona Rueda Esquibel, associate professor of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of With her Machete in her Hand. Her new book, co-authored with Luz Calvo is Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing

It is a strange fact that immigrants from Latin America suffer fewer diseases of Western culture than their citizen relatives. The longer they remain in the US, …

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Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and a political prison. He filed a new commentary entitled ‘The Children of Perdition’.

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Published by Truthdig.com on February 26, 2016

An Indian student demands the resignation of India’s education minister as she is detained by police during a protest over the suicide last month of Ph.D. candidate Rohith Vemula in New Delhi. (Altaf Qadri / AP)

Indian democracy is in such grave danger from right-wing religious fundamentalism and nationalism that it is even affecting the United States. …

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The book “Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority” argues that progressives are a large enough group to pull politicians forward. | Photo: AFP

With the US becoming more racially diverse, left-leaning people of color in alliance with their white counterparts means that there is a progressive voting majority right now.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a campaign appearance Tuesday in New York City’s Harlem. (a katz / Shutterstock)

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to issue a mea culpa in The New York Times last week for her recent remarks suggesting that women who are not planning to vote for her friend Hillary Clinton …

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GUEST: Melina Abdullah, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA and an organizer with Black Lives Matter-LA.

New York police officer Peter Liang was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man named Akai Gurley. The conviction, which happened on Thursday, is extremely rare, despite the high numbers of police shootings of unarmed people around the …

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GUEST: Steve Phillips, co-founder of PowerPAC.org that mobilized voters for the elections of Barack Obama, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris. He was the youngest person to be election to public office in San Francisco.

Brown is the New White, says my guest Steve Phillips, issuing a warning to politicians who operate on old assumptions of who American voters are and what their values are. In this …

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GUEST: Chenjerai Kumanyika is an Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Clemson University in South Carolina. He was one of the men in question who was kicked out of the Trump rally at Clemson.

Fresh from his victory in New Hampshire, Republican front runner Donald Trump headed to South Carolina where the next primary election will be taking place. He spoke at Clemson University where two …

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GUEST: Suyapa Portillo, an Assistant Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, she has a blog on the Huffington Post.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote a letter on February 11th to Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, calling into question the Obama administration’s ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants, particularly those who fled from Central America. A month ago Sanders had said to Obama directly, “As a …

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GUEST: Plastic Jesus, Los Angeles based artist.

In just a couple of weeks, the 88th Annual Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles, at a ceremony that will be marked by an almost overwhelmingly white cast of nominated actors. Awards Emcee Chris Rock is expected to weigh in comedically on the issue through the televised and highly popular event.

The Academy’s whiteness has become a political …

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