Human Rights

Sarah Jaffe's “Necessary Trouble” is an extensive, vivid overview of post-2008 crisis movements and their organizers.

We recently spoke with Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

Striving for justice in the long term is worth the upset in the present, worth the mess and the noise of trying to figure it all out.

This interview explores writing to transgress, holding Black pain and joy, and just how a Bad Ass Black Feminist gets made.

Are Apple's production quotas and profit margins actively obstructing positive change in its supply chain?

From Chicago's Freedom Square to Standing Rock, North Dakota — Black and Native struggles are rising.

Human rights, not a common identity or history, are at the intersection of the Movements for Black Lives and Palestine.

Children are being Tasered by school-based police officers, and no one knows about it.

For starters, this protest is about a competing idea for the future of the planet — and waves of people will show up to make that point.

Fixing not only voter registration but the nominating calendar itself could be the key to boosting the number of Americans who cast ballots on Election Day.