Two States, Two Competing Futures for Voting Rights in America Two States, Two Competing Futures for Voting Rights in America
Republicans will eventually have to reckon with a country that is more diverse, more compassionate and more progressive.
Oct 20, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will the University of Mississippi Ditch Its State Flag? Will the University of Mississippi Ditch Its State Flag?
Tomorrow its student government will vote on a resolution that would remove the Mississippi state flag from campus grounds because of its “[incorporation of] the Confederate battle...
Oct 19, 2015 / StudentNation / Carlos Ballesteros
Challenging Major League Baseball’s New Managerial Color Line Challenging Major League Baseball’s New Managerial Color Line
With zero African-American managers and only one Latino manager, baseball needs an affirmative-action policy with actual teeth.
Oct 19, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Workers Fight Back Against Racism, Wage Theft, Toxic Hazards, and Chronic Overwork at Brooklyn B&H Warehouse Workers Fight Back Against Racism, Wage Theft, Toxic Hazards, and Chronic Overwork at Brooklyn B&H Warehouse
The vintage retailer’s mom-and-pop branding doesn’t immunize it from the structural bias and exploitation pervading low-wage logistics work.
Oct 16, 2015 / Michelle Chen
October 16, 1995: The Million Man March in Washington, DC October 16, 1995: The Million Man March in Washington, DC
“Whatever its misogynous and separatist underpinnings, this march drew on a well of community-based black activism.”
Oct 16, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’? How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?
Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow.
Oct 15, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Black Deaths Matter Black Deaths Matter
Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.
Oct 15, 2015 / Feature / Seth Freed Wessler
Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time
Photojournalist Brian Palmer documents the effort to restore a Virginia cemetery overtaken by trash and brush during years of official neglect.
Oct 15, 2015 / Photo Essay / Brian Palmer and Erin Hollaway Palmer
October 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party Is Founded October 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party Is Founded
“The most that can be held out is the prospect of still more futile gestures, which assure the Panthers that their movement will some day be crushed.”
Oct 15, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
The Senate’s Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Bill Only Tackles Half the Problem The Senate’s Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Bill Only Tackles Half the Problem
If we don’t face the injustice of the very existence of prisons, the root causes of mass incarceration will go unaddressed.
Oct 14, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith