Habiba Alcindor is the communications coordinator for The Nation. She is an aspiring screenwriter who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is currently writing a soap opera.
Massive backlash against the Ethnic Studies ban has been slow in coming but could prove politically disastrous for the powers that be.
The People of Color working group aims to bring more minorities into the Occupation, as well as to make sure that people of color are repesented throughout the movement.
Did the Poverty Tour succeed in dramatizing the magnitude of poverty’s impact on America—or simply draw attention to its organizers’ criticisms of Obama?
Interviews with the winners of the 2010 Nation Student Writing Contest.
An African-American community with New Deal roots finds some hope in a farmers’ market.