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Jeffrey Sterling | What Does It Mean to Be Black in America? 
Jeffrey Sterling. (photo: AP)
Jeffrey Sterling, Reader Supported News
Sterling writes: "Time and again, the quest for knowing what it meant to be black in America provided unfortunate revelations, which became more evident when I was in school."
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CBO Latest Estimate: Trumpcare Would Cost 32 Million Coverage
Tami Luhby, CNN Money
Luhby writes: "Republican senators are skittish enough that their health care bill would leave 22 million people more without health insurance by 2026, compared to Obamacare."
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Ken Burns Returns to Take on Vietnam - 'a War We Have Consciously Ignored'
David Smith, Guardian UK
Smith writes: "Divergent opinions over the polished black granite memorial - which lists, chronologically, the names of more than 58,000 Americans who died in the war, from John H Anderson Jr to Jessie C Alba - are peculiarly apt for the Vietnam war itself, a politically and socially polarising episode that shattered the myth of American invincibility."
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Victory for Workers: Minneapolis Becomes the First City in the Mid West to Pass $15 Minimum Wage
Emma Nelson, The Star Tribune
Nelson writes: "The move, years in the making and not fully phased in until 2024, will affect hundreds of businesses and thousands of workers across the city."
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When Muslims Are the Victims, We Refuse to Call It Terrorism
Sufyan Ismail, Independent
Ismail writes: "The lack of reporting is not the only problem; a dual reluctance to brand attacks against Muslims as 'terrorism', while attacks by white men are reported as anything but terror, just smacks of sheer media double-standards in the eyes of British Muslims."
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How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From African Americans
teleSUR
Excerpt: "During that century, so often touted as being a groundbreaking Black civil rights movement, some 600,000 Black farmers were forced off their lands."
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Oil Companies Are Just Not That Into Keystone XL
Grist
Excerpt: "The pipeline's operator, TransCanada, is struggling to track down oil producers and refiners who want to invest in transporting crude oil from Canada to the United States."
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