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Human Rights
Race, Love and the Struggle We Must Win
This 86-year-old civil rights leader believes reconciliation is the only way forward.
No Single-Issue Politics, Only Intersectionality: An Interview With Kimberlé Crenshaw
Intersectional analysis is key to dismantling white supremacy, patriarchy and single-issue activism.
The “Stamp of Guantánamo” Brands Russian Former Prisoners for Life
Long before Trump, the US was colluding with Russia on another matter: the persecution of Russian Muslims at Guantanamo.
The US Never Stopped Training and Arming Brutal Latin American Regimes
What used to be counterinsurgency training is now disguised as counter-narcotics training, but it's just as brutal.
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Campus Activists Fight Fordham University’s Ban on Students for Justice in Palestine
Members of Fordham's banned Students for Justice in Palestine chapter are now suing the university.
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Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Have Clamored for Trump’s “Religious Freedom” Order
Anti-LGBTQ hate groups have so far been successful in furthering their desired policies under Trump.
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How One African Refugee Is Feeding One of the Hungriest Places in the US
Since starting her farm, Rosata Hezumuryano has met great success by growing mboga buchungu for the hungry in Portland, Oregon.
French Voters Face Presidential Election Between Far-Right, Openly Racist Candidate and Centrist Investment Banker
Yasser Louati, a French human rights and civil liberties activist and researcher, discusses the difficulties of the French election.
Jeff Sessions’ Department of Injustice
Prejudice and bias appear to be the guiding principles of the “Justice Department” under Sessions and Trump.
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Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence: How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars
The American way of remembering and forgetting its wars is distinctive for several reasons.