Disaster Looms as the Coronavirus Disrupts the Garment Supply Chain Disaster Looms as the Coronavirus Disrupts the Garment Supply Chain
Fashion brands are sticking suppliers and workers with unpaid bills.
Jul 7, 2020 / Michelle Chen
Why JPMorgan Chase Should Give $1 Billion to Black Neighborhoods in Chicago Why JPMorgan Chase Should Give $1 Billion to Black Neighborhoods in Chicago
Activist Ja’Mal Green wants the nation’s biggest bank to pay reparations for its history of racist lending.
Jul 6, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Fernandez
The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership
The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like.
Jul 2, 2020 / Barbara Ransby
We Take Homelessness for Granted. The Pandemic Should Change That. We Take Homelessness for Granted. The Pandemic Should Change That.
The problem is not that there is no money, but that the decisions have already been made not to spend it on homelessness and the injustices that create and perpetuate it.
Jul 2, 2020 / no-paywall / Mary Kate Bacalao
Why Be a ‘Model Minority’ When You Could Dismantle White Supremacy? Why Be a ‘Model Minority’ When You Could Dismantle White Supremacy?
Too many Asian Americans have put proximity to whiteness over solidarity with Black people. It’s time for a radical readjustment.
Jun 30, 2020 / Dae Shik Kim Jr.
A Tale of Two Speeches A Tale of Two Speeches
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and President Trump offered two opposing worldviews on Saturday—one of unity and love, one of hate and division.
Jun 22, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage
Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Are Being Treated as Disposable
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the severe vulnerability of the workers whose labor stocks the shelves of international brands.
Jun 22, 2020 / no-paywall / Taslima Akhter, The Nation, and Magnum Foundation
When Police and Public Health Collide in the Age of Covid-19 When Police and Public Health Collide in the Age of Covid-19
Why is the capital of one of the most progressive states in the country so backward when it comes to public health?
Jun 18, 2020 / no-paywall / Gregg Gonsalves
The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid
The press needs to reckon with the prevalence of a worldview that defaults to the perspective of the white and wealthy.
Jun 17, 2020 / Michelle García
Hunger Stalks New York’s Lower East Side Hunger Stalks New York’s Lower East Side
Thousands of businesses in Manhattan have closed, thrusting an untold number of people into economic precarity and food insecurity.
Jun 5, 2020 / Winnie Wong