We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year
The labor of generations of black bodies has created massive amounts of wealth for everyone but the people whose work was exploited. And we’ve continued to suffer the consequ...
May 16, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Threatening to Worsen School Segregation and Widen Inequalities How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Threatening to Worsen School Segregation and Widen Inequalities
Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts.
May 15, 2014 / Susan Eaton
After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South
Still mourning Chokwe Lumumba, progressives gather to push his vision for worker-owned co-ops.
May 14, 2014 / Laura Flanders
The Tactics Change, but the Police State Stays the Same The Tactics Change, but the Police State Stays the Same
Police will continue to abuse the rights of the already marginalized because we, as American citizens, refuse to question the fundamental goals of policing.
May 13, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege
There are no American institutions of power that are founded on wholesale discrimination against white men. That’s not the case for the rest of us.
May 5, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Will HRC Do Right By the South? Will HRC Do Right By the South?
Southern organizers have tips on how the LGBT group can make its foray into the region work. HRC responds: “We got this.”
May 1, 2014 / Dani McClain
Cracking Down on Subway Dancers Is Just Another Way of Criminalizing Black Youth Cracking Down on Subway Dancers Is Just Another Way of Criminalizing Black Youth
The ease with which we criminalize and abuse black youth in this country would be astounding if it weren’t so routine.
May 1, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Learning From Mexico Learning From Mexico
Richard Rodriguez’s vision of racial mixing as New World destiny.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
What Cliven Bundy Learned From the Koch Brothers What Cliven Bundy Learned From the Koch Brothers
The real “takers” are the biggest corporations and banks, the richest Americans.
Apr 29, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism
The embattled basketball team owner broke the rules of how one should go about being racist in America.
Apr 28, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith