Truthout
Human Rights
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Delivering on Housing Vouchers’ Potential to Give Families Real Choice
A quarter of a million children in voucher households live in high-poverty neighborhoods, despite the better options that a voucher should give them.
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Indigenous Maracana Community Forges Alliance With Ayotzinapa Caravan
Indigenous Peoples like the Maracana have as much to offer as they have to gain in terms of solidarity and support with the Ayotzinapa movement.
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Uncontacted Tribes Don’t Need the “Protection” of Western Anthropologists
Making contact with highly vulnerable uncontacted peoples risks undercutting recent advances.
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Obama and the Logic of Massacre, From Birmingham to Charleston
President Obama cannot escape the message and the environment his administration has created.
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Healing Is Not Grieving: We Must Not “Move Forward” in the Wake of Massacre
Calls for premature healing are really appeals to return to the national status quo.
What a Trial in Pakistan Reveals About Women Who Choose Fundamentalist Islam
Uzma Qayyum's controversial case set her against the men who would rescue her.
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Obama’s Amazing Grace
He left Clementa Pinckney's funeral as a black man who happened to be president.
As Black Churches Burn Across the South, Are White Supremacist Attacks Continuing?
The FBI is launching an investigation into fires set at seven Black churches.
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Greenpeace Activists Risked Harsh Imprisonment in Russia to Stop Arctic Drilling
This excerpt describes the moments before Greenpeace members attempted to mount a protest against a Russian drilling platform.
Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Four women reflect on women of color surviving domestic violence, the US carceral system and immigration control.