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RSN: Cornel West | Obama Has Failed Victims of Racism and Police Brutality




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Cornel West | Obama Has Failed Victims of Racism and Police Brutality 
Professor Cornel West. (photo: VICE) 
Cornel West, Guardian UK 
West writes: "A long and deep legacy of white supremacy has always arrested the development of US democracy. We either hit it head on, or it comes back to haunt us." 
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Bloody Coup Attempt Leaves at Least 265 Dead in Turkey 
Erin Cunningham, Liz Sly and Zeynep Karatas, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Turkey's government defeated a coup attempt by a renegade faction of the military that pummeled government and security institutions overnight with fighter jets, reasserting control on Saturday after hours of chaos and clashes that killed at least 265 people and plunged the already troubled country into further uncertainty." 
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Footage Shows US Police Shooting Unarmed Fresno Teen 4 Times 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The Fresno, California police department released body camera videos Wednesday showing two officers fatally shooting an unarmed white man amid renewed scrutiny across the United States over police brutality." 
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Feds Monitoring Activists on Facebook Ahead of Republican Convention 
Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Currier writes: "Federal authorities are watching political activists organizing protests ahead of next week's Republican National Convention, warning that 'anarchist extremists' pose a threat to Cleveland." 
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The Devastating Consequences of Losing Your Parents to Mass Incarceration 
Rebecca Nathanson, VICE 
Nathanson writes: "Raymond Rodriguez doesn't remember why his dad was arrested. He doesn't even remember exactly how old he was when police officers entered the home he shared with his parents and two siblings in the Bronx, threw his dad on the floor, and took him away." 
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Uprooted in Mexico: The US Children 'Returned' to a Country They Barely Know 
Nina Lakhani and Monica Jacobo, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "After 14 years as an undocumented farmworker in the US, Julia Aguilar returned to Mexico last year with her two sons, both of whom were born in California. The boys, then seven and 10, had never previously visited their new home town of San Martin Peras in an isolated corner of the southern state of Oaxaca." 
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Oil Spills Are Actually Good for Birds, Fish, and the Economy According to the Oil Industry 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "For the past few weeks, the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) has been holding hearings on the matter of a proposed oil-by-rail terminal that could be built in Vancouver, Washington." 
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