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Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.
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