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DC Football Team Pres Says New Name Will Carry No Reference to Native Americans
Since dropping its racist name under pressure last year, the Washington Football Team is still seeking to rename itself.
The Attack on “Critical Race Theory” Deploys a Dangerous Fiction of Neutrality
Contrary to the claims of the GOP, education in a racist and sexist world cannot be “values-neutral.”
Grace Lee and James Boggs Showed How We Can Unite Our Struggles for Justice
There is much we can learn from Lee and Boggs’s 40-year partnership as an interracial couple in movement activism.
The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Carries a Racist History
A new book details how the Second Amendment was written to empower local militia groups to put down slave revolts.
UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
“Systemic racism needs a systemic response,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated.
Canada’s Indigenous Genocide Is Ongoing
The mass graves at former Indian residential school sites are not the whole story. Colonial violence is far from over.
The Right Has Chosen Critical Race Theory as Its New Boogeyman to Scare Voters
At least 25 states and many municipalities have proposed or passed legislation banning critical race theory in schools.
Pandemic’s High Toll at the Texas Border Lays Bare Gaps in Health and Insurance
Health experts say Texas's lax COVID response and refusal to expand Medicaid contributed to the higher death rates.
Supreme Court Ruled Against Enslaved Children Even as US Celebrated Juneteenth
Child laborers on West African cocoa plantations are beaten, locked up and forced to toil for U.S. corporate profits.
Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy
Resisting despair honors “all of those grandmothers who kept fighting for justice,” theologian Kelly Brown Douglas says.