2022-08-30: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-30). Killer cops in Akron, Ohio, cut body-cam audio after realizing Jayland Walker was unarmed. wsws.org More than eight weeks after Walker's murder, none of the police involved have been charged or identified.

_____ (2022-08-29). Police Repress Demonstration Against Luma In Puerto Rico. popularresistance.org The Police of the State of Puerto Rico, a dependent territory of the United States, dispersed Thursday night a demonstration of dozens of Puerto Ricans in Old San Juan, who were staging a protest against LUMA Energy due to the constant power outages. | This is the most recent episode of the protests that have been shaking the Caribbean island for days, although it is the first one that culminated with a confrontation between demonstrators and police, and one person arrested. | The Teachers Federation also joined Thursday night's protest, as did the president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), Juan Dalm…

_____ (2022-08-28). Dr. Gerald Horne On The Life And Legacy Of W.E.B. Du Bois. popularresistance.org Decades after his death, W.E.B Du Bois stands as one of the great intellectual giants of the 20th Century. Born in Massachussets after the Civil War, Du Bois became the first Black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, and was one of the founders of the NAACP and the Niagara Movement. He authored works such as The Souls of Black Folk, The Philadelphia Negro, and Black Reconstruction in America, and is widely considered to be one of the founders of American sociology. Du Bois's brilliance extended beyond the academy to the world of politics. He denounced accommodationists such as Booker T. Washington, t…

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