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In the United States, every eight hours an American Citizen is killed by police. From May 2013, over 3,136 people have been killed by the police. In 2014, 1108 people were killed by police. In 2015, 1,202 people were killed by police officers. While ninety percent of citizens are indicted for killings, police are only indicated one percent of the time. Almost two billion dollars a year from taxpayers go towards police misconduct. Black Lives Matter, is a necessary movement by African Americans,…

In her speech “Our Armies Are Rising and We Are Getting Stronger”, to the Latino Gay Men of New York (LGMNY) in 2001, Sylvia Rivera recounted her life in the context of her contribution to transgender activism, specifically that of the Stonewall Riots which took place during the summer of 1969. Throughout her speech Rivera reveals the underlying and persistent marginalization that took place not only on behalf of the cisgender, heteronormative community, but by her own community as well. Just…

Imagine Augusta under military occupation, Atlanta being shelled and burned, and Savannah being captured as a Christmas. One might ask what could cause destruction like that. What is powerful enough to make the country turn upon itself? What is the force that could turn Georgia into a war zone and Augusta into ash? The answer, simply put, is nothing more than a book. In 1862, as the United States of America was experiencing the catalyst of social change that would later become known as the Civil…

Over the course of the last century, a series of laws and practices have contributed to both de jure and de facto segregation. De jure segregation is legal segregation and was prevalent in the Southern United States. De facto segregation, on the other hand, is segregation that exists because of where people live. It is often thought to be a more “natural” segregation or segregation by choice, a wholly untrue statement that made the problem even worse. While it was primarily practiced in the…

The Real Irish Republican Army, or Real IRA, is a terrorist organization in Northern Ireland conducting an armed campaign to reunite the island of Ireland under an Irish Republic. The Real IRA has conducted some of the most sensational attacks of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including the Omagh bombing in 1998 and a rocket propelled grenade attack on the MI-5 headquarters in England. The Real IRA has also been at the forefront of improvised explosive device technology; utilizing bombs with…