10 Black Women Innovators and the Awesome Things They Brought Us
From a better hairbrush to modern 3D technology, ten things that might never have existed without the invention or innovation of black women.
‘Divisive’: How corporate media dismiss ideas unpopular with elites
All too often, words such as “divisive,” “contentious” or “controversial” are used merely as media codewords meaning “ideas unpopular with the ruling elite”—what FAIR calls “not journalistically viable.”
Stop social media platforms from spreading hateful content
Tell social media platforms to stop the spread of hateful content online.
“Libs of TikTok” and the right’s war on public education
This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.
‘Big attack on working people:’ Trump moves to redefine poverty in order to slash...
"A novel way to take health care etc. away from people AND make it look like there are fewer poor people – change the formula."
Women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but its new farm...
“We barely have any land. If that too is gifted to [billionaires], then what will we eat?”
Thanksgiving in spite of it all
Why, in the era of the Worst President Ever, with racism and violence erupting with special virulence for the past three years, should we offer thanks?
Media complicity is key to blacklisting websites
In media and government, the journalists and officials who enable blacklisting are cravenly siding with conformity instead of democracy.
How do we confront a Supreme threat to choice?
It's a matter of life and death.
Houston neighbors said no to Walmart and invested in Black-owned businesses after the hurricane
Communities of color turned to each other to make it through the disaster. Months later, they’re doing the same to rebuild.