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PBC News & Comment: Abortive Coup in Turkey, Cop Killings in Baton Rouge Set Stage for Trump Convention

Week of horror includes Bastille Day deaths in Nice, failed military coup in Turkey, and Sunday’s Baton Rouge police killings….. Continue reading PBC News & Comment: Abortive Coup in Turkey, Cop Killings in Baton Rouge Set Stage for Trump Convention

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In-Depth Interview: Prof. Rashad Shabazz Uses Historical Geography to Analyze Segregation, Incarceration

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Rashad Shabazz, assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University talks about his remarkable book Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Continue reading In-Depth Interview: Prof. Rashad Shabazz Uses Historical Geography to Analyze Segregation, Incarceration

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PBC News & Comment: Nice Attack Defines Summer of 2016

War-driven upheaval and displacement, simmering ethnic and religious tensions lead to more repression, loss of life: a vicious cycle….. Continue reading PBC News & Comment: Nice Attack Defines Summer of 2016

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PBC News & Comment: Trump Expected to Pick Pence for Veep

All leaks point to Indiana’s ultraconservative Gov. Mike Pence as Trump VP pick, Chris Christie stranded at George Washington Bridge…. Continue reading PBC News & Comment: Trump Expected to Pick Pence for Veep

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PBC News & Comment: Change of the Guard in Britain

Britain’s quick transfer of power from Cameron to May seems more attractive than America’s endless, expensive and meaningless presidential campaigns… Continue reading PBC News & Comment: Change of the Guard in Britain

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PBC News & Comment: Once Again, America Responds to Violence and Hate with Thoughts and Prayers

Armed to the teeth, with racial hate unleashed, Americans respond to another violent week with “Thoughts and Prayers”, empty rhetoric….. Continue reading PBC News & Comment: Once Again, America Responds to Violence and Hate with Thoughts and Prayers