Tag: race

“We’re going to keep fighting, we’re not going to allow this to be a sacrifice zone for people of color.”

"There’s a vibrant left-wing movement coalescing against this, and I have a lot of optimism about the ability to fight against this."

If Gov. Northam’s exit becomes one more potent lever against continued Trumpery, he achieves both partial atonement and participation in removing a national disgrace.

"Because it is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept."

We speak to Nathan Phillips about what happened. He is a Vietnam-era veteran and previous director of the Native Youth Alliance.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.

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.

“If you look for instance at the surges in Ku Klux Klan membership, they align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat and the aftermath of war than they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."

As we stay engaged to make sure all the votes are counted, we also begin to shift toward reflection, recalibration and recommitment.