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Trymaine Lee
MS NOW Opinion
The staggeringly high cost the United States pays for easy access to guns
The cost of a single gunshot injury is estimated to be $1 million. Multiply that by the approximately 100,000 people shot in the U.S. in any given year.
MS NOW Opinion
How the right broke ‘woke’
I want you to keep your ears tuned for one single word at the first GOP debate.
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Recognizing America’s greatest sins — and repaying its greatest debts
The only way to make Black people — with their partial, conditional, fractured citizenship — whole is to return their dispossessed wealth and opportunity.
Opinion
Evanston’s $400,000 down payment for national Black reparations
Is Evanston’s plan a good start? Or just too little to make a dent in the backpay owed to Black Americans?
Opinion
Jacob Lawrence painted Black America for Black people — not the white gaze
This is a journey that takes us on a winding path through history and into an orbit of known and largely unknown figures who helped shape Black identity in America.
Opinion
White rioters at the Capitol got police respect. Black protestors got rubber bullets.
It comes down to a question of citizenship.
Opinion
Biden needs to push for reparations to address the racism that long preceded Trump
Biden’s pitch to Black America was to acknowledge racial injustice. That’s not enough.
Opinion
Democrats would rather mock Ice Cube then grapple with what he represents
In these last days of the 2020 election season, the Democrats should be wary of dismissing the Ice Cube moment, and everything it represents.
Specials
The City: Prison’s Grip on the Black Family
The spirals of poverty and mass incarceration upend urban communities — MSNBC’s Geography of Poverty series.
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Analysis: The cost of a black boy’s life? $6 million.
The city of Cleveland has agreed to settle with the family of slain 12-year-old Tamir Rice, killed by a city cop in 2014, for $6 million. Is money enough?