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Frida Kahlo: A Cultural Icon Denied Recognition in Her Lifetime
Frida Kahlo didn't gain the recognition she deserved until many years after her death.
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Love Notes From the Margins: How We’ll Survive These Times
To survive the next four years, we, as marginalized people, must come together in solidarity and resistance.
Standing Rock Sioux Elder: “We Have an Obligation to Protect All of America”
“We symbolize the struggle of every community in America about the lack of water, about contaminated water.”
For Millions, the Election Was Always Lost
For people who were never enfranchised, or always existed in as second-class citizens, November 9 was just another day.
Ignoring Torture Among the Poor
Documenting torture is problematic, and continually leaves out the experiences of the poor.
Dakota Access Pipeline Once Again on Hold as Standing Rock Supporters Stage Day of Action
Just hours after the Army Corps extended its delay, Energy Transfer Partners petitioned the US District Court in Washington, DC to intervene.
Bernie Sanders’ Surprise Speech Outside the White House on Rejecting Dakota Pipeline and Trump
Sanders demanded that the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples be honored.
A Eulogy for Tom Hayden, 1939-2016
“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort — looking uneasily at the world we inherit.”
Why We Must Fight for the Security of 43 Million Immigrants
This is our fight, a fight for the security of the over 43 million American immigrants, documented or otherwise.
Slavery, Democracy and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College
This election should challenge us to ask some inconvenient questions about the racialized nature of our political institutions.