Katelyn Johnson
Katelyn Johnson is Executive Director of Action Now, a grassroots community organization working to build power and fight for racial, social and economic justice in low-income Black communities in Chicago. She is also Co-executive director of the Blackroots Alliance. She graduated from North Park University in 2004 and has dedicated her career to addressing issues of systemic oppression and developing grassroots leaders.
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Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
Today’s bankrupt presidency is not merely economic but moral, cultural and environmental in scope
Does not wrecking hard-won, global leadership (evident with Iran) constitute a seventh, eighth, tenth and fiftieth Trump bankruptcy?
Whitmer’s data center push isn’t just bad for Michigan—it’s bad for the world
Michiganders are "fighting like hell" because they understand exactly what is at stake.
Trump removes election agency commissioners ahead of midterms
The firings leave the Election Assistance Commission without commissioners after it resisted Trump’s push to add proof-of-citizenship requirements to federal voter registration.
Congress targets SCOTUS Roundup ruling with new warning label bill
This newly introduced bipartisan bill called the People Over Poison Act (H.R. 9528) seeks to mandate health warning labels on pesticides and restore consumers' rights to sue chemical manufacturers.