The 2015 Moral Monday Movement: ‘North Carolina Is Our Selma’ The 2015 Moral Monday Movement: ‘North Carolina Is Our Selma’
This Saturday, progressive activists in North Carolina are holding a major “Moral March on Raleigh.”
Feb 12, 2015 / Ari Berman
There’s No #BlackLivesMatter Without Net Neutrality There’s No #BlackLivesMatter Without Net Neutrality
A new generation of civil rights activists depends on a free Internet.
Feb 11, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Students Mass Against ‘Hebdo’-Fueled Hate Speech, Disrupt Tuition Hikes and Rise for Jessie Hernandez Students Mass Against ‘Hebdo’-Fueled Hate Speech, Disrupt Tuition Hikes and Rise for Jessie Hernandez
From the quad to the highway, the youth groundswell continues.
Feb 11, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Race and Civil Rights in ‘The Nation’: Part I Race and Civil Rights in ‘The Nation’: Part I
A multimedia timeline presenting the history of the struggle for racial justice, from 1865 to 1919.
Feb 10, 2015 / The Nation
From ‘Victim’ to ‘Threat’: James Baldwin and the Demands of Self-Respect From ‘Victim’ to ‘Threat’: James Baldwin and the Demands of Self-Respect
Baldwin yielded to nobody in his quest to weed racism out of the American garden—root and branch.
Feb 10, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Defend the Clean Water Act Defend the Clean Water Act
Tell your election officials to support a new rule that would help protect the drinking water of more than 117 million Americans.
Feb 10, 2015 / NationAction
How the Left Failed France’s Muslims How the Left Failed France’s Muslims
When the left abdicated its outreach to marginalized communities, the Islamists moved in.
Feb 6, 2015 / Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus
Bratton’s Police State on Steroids Bratton’s Police State on Steroids
The formation of the NYPD’s new Strategic Response Unit raises disturbing questions about police brutality.
Feb 6, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith
10 Ways to Help Keep Fish Healthy and Water Clean 10 Ways to Help Keep Fish Healthy and Water Clean
“We all live upstream”—and we can all fight storm-water runoff.
Feb 5, 2015 / NationAction
We’ve Almost Won the Fight for Net Neutrality We’ve Almost Won the Fight for Net Neutrality
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said that he’ll support real net neutrality. Make sure that Congress doesn’t get in the way.
Feb 4, 2015 / NationAction