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Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.
Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Inspired by the work of James and Grace Lee Boggs, many young Detroit activists are turning to forms of mutual aid to meet the needs of their communities.
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
Every city I’ve lived in has been filled with racism, whether out in the open or hidden in an invisible dialogue of economics and housing. Birmingham taught me to never question what it meant to be a Black American.
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Lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.
Professor of American History at UCLA
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