Native Peoples' Bones Are Not Collectors' Items. They Must Be Returned.

Sunday, April 28, 2019 [Native Peoples' Bones Are Not Collectors' Items. They Must Be Returned.]( Mary Annette Pember, Truthout Recent FBI attempts to reach out to Native Americans for help in repatriating approximately 500 sets of human remains found in a private collection are yet another reminder of the cultural hegemony of European conquest and entitlement over Indigenous peoples. That the collector, Don Miller, was not charged for the crime is further proof of the entrenched racism that views the robbing of Native graves as a "harmless hobby." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [None of the 2020 Frontrunners Go Far Enough on Climate]( Dahr Jamail, Truthout When it comes to rhetoric, the 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunners sound pretty serious about climate change, but their policies are nowhere near adequate to address the magnitude of the crisis. In fact, the best climate platforms are not to be found on the websites of political candidates of any stripe. Instead, we must look to the grassroots for guidance in order to ensure the survival of life on this planet. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Missouri "Dark Money" Group Invokes Trump in Campaign to Change Title IX Laws]( Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics A Missouri lobbyist whose son was expelled from college following allegations of sexual misconduct is using Facebook ads featuring President Trump to promote a bill that would change the way such cases are handled. The Missouri proposal, which has hit a wall in the Missouri Senate, includes some similarities to federal Title IX reforms proposed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in November 2018. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Readers like you make it possible for Truthout to publish bold, honest journalism. Help us continue this vital work: Make a tax-deductible donation today. [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rise in White Prisoners Doesn't Change Innate Racism of Prisons]( Dan Berger, Truthout Racism is the greatest divider of prisoners, to the benefit of their real enemy: the prison system and the capitalist state it upholds. Republican support for the First Step Act and other criminal legal reform endeavors should be seen as one gambit to suppress radical critiques of imprisonment while recruiting or maintaining the conservative loyalties of white people impacted by the prison system. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [American Health Care Horror Stories: An Incomplete Inventory]( Fran Quigley, Faith in Healthcare The statistics demonstrating the scope of our nation's health care crisis are appalling enough. Many people have been victimized by a health care system that excels at generating corporate profits but fails at the basic task of caring for those in need. Universal health care would make these tragedies and absurdities unthinkable. Here are those stories. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus Is Spreading Among Us]( Alex Liebman and Rob Wallace, Independent Science News The agricultural applications of antibiotics help generate drug resistance across multiple human bacterial infections, killing 23,000 to 100,000 Americans a year and, with an increasing amount of antibiotics applied abroad, 700,000 people worldwide. Now a fungal species has developed multidrug resistance and is rapidly spreading across human populations across the globe. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Black Workers Say Walmart's Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory]( Rebecca Burns, In These Times Two Black workers filed racial discrimination charges against Walmart last week, alleging that the company's background check policies had a disparate impact on Black workers in an Elwood, Illinois, distribution center. Staffing agencies have long been accused of discriminating against Black workers by, among other things, requiring them to submit to criminal background checks to which other workers are not subjected. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Artificial Intelligence Oppresses the Poor and People of Color]( Salima Hamirani, Making Contact Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't just in the movies. Robots are making real decisions for us every day. Courts, search engines, stores and advertisers all use AI to make decisions about our behavior, with many unexplored impacts on the poor and people of color. In one instance, community organizers on skid row fought back against the use of artificial intelligence by the Los Angeles Police Department. [Listen to the Audio →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [To Conjure the Future We Want, We Need a Revolution of the Heart]( Cherise Morris, Truthout Spirituality has always provided the space for resistance. The architects of slavery and colonization understood this all too well when they systematically marginalized Black and Indigenous spiritualities. Now, as we rise up to co-create new social contracts, we must boldly engage once again with our spirituality as an essential step toward building a just future that addresses the legacies of racism and colonialism. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism]( Ashley Smith, Truthout William I. Robinson's new book, Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism, discusses the new epoch of capitalism under globalization, where the central axis of conflict is between the transnational capitalist and working classes. A new socialist movement must resist falling prey to the classic divide-and-conquer strategies of the ruling classes -- such as Trump's "America First" foreign policy -- in order to oppose both capitalism and imperialism. [Read the Review →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you're reading? 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