Chicago’s last black-owned bank got millions in government deposits — then had to give...
As Black-owned banks disappear, politicians are under increasing pressure to save them. Big deposits are a ready solution, but sometimes they burden the banks more than they help.
Police detective charged in fatal shooting
“His conduct was reckless. It was reckless and in violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Suppressed body cam video shows cops beating innocent unarmed man
No criminal charges have been filed against the Topeka Police Department for suppressing the footage or the prosecutors.
Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding
Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financial and other records about the arrangement.
Fascists don’t deserve space: Our humanity is not up for debate
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, centrist liberals have lionized the white supremacist, paving the way for a greater assault from authoritarian bullies.
What to know when someone blames Black people for all the riots
Our society should move away from racist conclusions, and toward the outrageous indecencies that a well-to-do society forces on us less fortunate members.
Supreme Court conservatives about to kill fair elections permanently
Our nation is at a legal and ethical crossroads, where we must choose between actual ‘rule of law,’ or the rule of ‘judicial capture.'
Defund the police, defund the military
Together we must seize this moment to move from incremental reform to real systemic change, not just within the U.S. but throughout the racist, neocolonial world that is policed by the U.S. military.
NatCon kingmaker?
The most dangerous thing about rightwing populism or ‘National Conservatism’ is that the plutocrats that fund it and have become its standard bearers pretend that they have the interests of working people at heart.
Protecting and serving white supremacy
The connections between the police and the far right expose not only the sympathies of individual officers, but the social role of the police.