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Voluntary white separatism: is segregation returning to the southern US?
A group of wealthy white residents in the black-majority Louisiana city of Baton Rouge have been permitted to split from the city in a move termed ‘neosegregationist’ — and they are not the first, writes NATALIA MARQUES
A mural depicting civil rights victories in a poor black area in Baton Rouge
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE state Supreme Court in the southern US state of Louisiana, on April 26, gave the city of St George the right to secede from the larger capital city of Baton Rouge.
This has cleared the way for a group of wealthy white Baton Rouge residents to carve out a majority-white enclave of the largely black city — recalling the history in the US of segregation and white flight.
Wealthy, white residents of Baton Rouge have been trying to secede from the rest of the city in some shape or form for over a decade. In 2012, a group of parents went to the state legislature to propose the creation of a separate school district which they called the Southeast Community School District. This effort failed, but the following year they tried once again and also failed.
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