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During the two weeks that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been on trial for murdering George Floyd, the legend of John Henry has come to mind. According to the great American folk ballad, the railroad laborer was working in West Virginia in the early 1870s when his company …

Denouncing Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes” – while pleading for more immigrants from Scandinavia – Donald Trump did more than reveal personal racism. He made plain that U.S. immigration policy is now being driven by animus toward black and brown people. Trump’s comments were made Thursday in …