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Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party: An Interview With Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, is the author of a new book released last month, entitled "Body and Soul: The Black Panther …
On Eve of MLK Day, Michelle Alexander & Randall Robinson on the Mass Incarceration of Black America
On this eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we host a wide-ranging discussion with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of …
Ex-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Media Consolidation, Broadband Expansion, Threats to Journalism
Juan Gonzalez: The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday testing the constitutionality of a Bush-era regulation that allows the Federal Communications Commission to levy stiff fines on broadcasters for the …
Interview With MSNBC Host and Professor Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Melissa V. Harris-Perry, author of “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.” (Photo: @MHarrisPerry) Melissa V. Harris-Perry: I am not a huge fan of the …
Author of “Pity the Billionaire” Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
(Image: Metropolitan Books) Thomas Frank is the author of “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” (Metropolitan Books). He wrote several …
As States Take on Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig Offers Bold Plan to Get Money Out of Politics
California and New York City lawmakers are introducing measures today calling for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, the controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling that characterizes political spending as …
Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race
Iowa is awash in millions of dollars of negative campaign ads funded by so-called Super PACs as voters head to their caucuses in the first real test of the …
Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
Author and professor Melissa Harris-Perry. (Photo: Ove Overmyer) Since the days of slavery, the African-American woman has been subjected to stereotypes: the mammy, the angry black female …
Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies
Mr. Escobar, given your experience in that field, what would you highlight as the most crucial misunderstanding held by the general public related to the so called “War on …
Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope
New Yorkers take part in a program called Added Value by preparing a plant bed in Red Hook, Brooklyn on August 14, 2003. (Photo: Nancy Siesel / The New …