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Building Movements Without Shedding Differences: Alicia Garza of #BlackLivesMatter
“A love note to our people.” That's how Black Lives Matter started, explains Garza.
Freed After Eight Years at Guantanamo, a Father and Son Are Still Kept Apart
Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son Muhammed were imprisoned in Guantanamo in 2002.
Hedge Fund-Backed Castellan Real Estate Group Intimidates New York City Tenants to Vacate
Castellan continues to force out tenants.
University of Oklahoma Students Mobilize Against Racism as Two Fraternity Members Expelled
Fraternity members led a racist song.
Michelle Alexander: Roots of Today’s Mass Incarceration Crisis Date to Slavery, Jim Crow
Alexander looks at the historical roots of “the new Jim Crow.”
Michelle Alexander: Ferguson Shows Why Criminal Justice System of “Racial Control” Should Be Undone
“America are finally waking up,” says Michelle Alexander.
Introducing David Theo Goldberg’s “Sites of Race”
Racist expression and exclusion are denied their social origin and systemic content, reduced to matters of private discrimination.
Beyond Survival: Organizing to End Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers
The main arenas of the trafficking debate have focused on trafficking of sex workers and children. Those who have been trafficked for the purpose of supplying low-cost domestic work …
Tens of Thousands Join North Carolina Moral March to Protest GOP Takeover, Racism and Islamophobia
Tens of thousands gathered Saturday in Raleigh for what organizers are calling one of the largest civil rights rallies in the South since the Selma to Montgomery march in …
Some Thoughts on Mercy: An Essay on Race and Redemption
A journey into the world of racial hurt, degradation and separateness holds out the fragile possibility of redemption.