The police will keep killing us until we stop criminalizing blackness and poverty
The murder of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police is the latest reminder that we must hold our elected officials accountable for upholding a system that devalues Black life.
Share the wealth? We can start now – here’s how
Corporations have, in effect, become inequality’s single most powerful engine. We need to slow that engine down.
#BlackFridays walkouts turn rage into action and community
This initiative, connected by the Twitter hashtag #BlackFridays, has resulted in a number of symbolic walkouts across the country led by a network of women of color.
Ari Berman: GOP docs prove Census citizenship question is about preserving white political power
This undercount could affect everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding.
Watch: Will anyone help save America’s small businesses?
American families and businesses deserve better.
MLK opposed ‘poverty, racism & militarism’ in speech one year before his assassination 53...
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism.”
Urgent to progressives: Stop fueling the anti-Russia frenzy
Such eagerness to share undocumented spin as absolute fact has led many progressive groups to go with knee-jerk reactions.
America: Lost with no moral compass
In 2014 a story broke about a high school football team hazing syndrome that regressed into sexual assaults by upperclassmen upon freshman...
Building power and raising voices of rural women
Rural women have served as the educators, healthcare givers, nurturers, and fighters for our community for generations.
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Costa Rica—first in Central America
"This change will cause a significant social and cultural transformation of the country."