‘Some are having to consider taking their families to move back into their elderly parents’ homes…’
Jon Jeter
Jon Jeter is a contributing writer at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, who has also served stints at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Washington Post, among others.
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Black grassroots activism shows signs of resurgence
‘The grassroots in the Black community will have to save itself.’
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Police killings display flagrant racial double standards
Unarmed Black people are killed by police at a rate three times higher than Whites.
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Are African Americans truly free?
The result is two nations in one, with Whites’ overall living standards rivaling Canada’s or Western Europe, while Blacks live a life that is closer in quality to Mexico or Palestine.
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Billions for Ukraine as U.S. poverty festers
‘Where is the money, where is the land, where are all the things that we are owed in terms of reparations?’
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As recession looms, Blacks could be hardest hit
Blacks lost more wealth following the 2008 collapse of the real estate market than at any time since the 1874 failure of the Freedman’s bank and never truly recovered.
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Juneteenth gets commodified—like everything else in the U.S.
To many observers, the exploitation of the Juneteenth holiday for marketing purposes mirrors the exploitation of the Black body in American life.
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Is racism a mental illness, or just plain evil?
What, other than madness, could have caused 18-year-old Payton Gendron to walk into the Tops supermarket in Buffalo and kill Black shoppers?
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The complex relationship between African Americans and the military
African Americans have served in every military conflict since the Revolutionary War, yet faced discrimination in every branch of the Armed Forces.
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Two years after Floyd’s murder: Police reform has stalled nationally
‘I think that we have made some progress, but the problem is we get complacent and the minute that things look like they’re starting to change we relax.’
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Black suicide surge continues
African American boys between the ages of five and 12 are more likely to die by suicide than any other age group.
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Is getting a Black woman on the high court more symbol than substance?
‘Congratulations to her, but we’ve been here before and it seems we’re stuck here loving and celebrating symbolism without tangibles.’
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Blacks see racial double standard in Smollett’s stiff sentence (updated)
‘I am not here to debate you on his innocence. But we can agree that the punishment does not fit the crime.’
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Remembering Brian Coyle, one AIDS victim among the millions
A reflection on the legacy of Brian Coyle, a champion for the city’s poor.
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After 25 years of ‘ending welfare’, poor people far worse off
The ratio of African American households who own their own home has dropped to its lowest number, 42%, in more than 50 years.
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Labor/union history tainted by racism
Reflections on both the towering triumphs and embarrassing failures of a trade union movement.
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Vaccination hesitancy among Blacks based on mistrust of an unjust system
History is replete with examples of White physicians brutalizing African Americans rather than healing them.
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Haiti digs out from another massive earthquake
The devastation, of course, comes only five weeks after gunmen burst into Haiti’s presidential palace and assassinated President Jovenel Moïse.
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July job report: jobs are plentiful but the wages are few
Of the 943,000 jobs created in July, 380,000 were in the hospitality sector, where wages are notoriously low…
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Racism, patriarchy taint Japan Olympics
Several Black female athletes have experienced issues ahead of the 2021 Olympics that has raised concerns of racism and patriarchy.