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My University “Rebranded.” Instead, It Should’ve Actually Confronted Injustice.
UMass Boston's rebranding may serve to establish the campus as a beacon of bait-and-switch austerity politics.
Protesters in Ohio Are Met With Riot Police Following Killing of Jayland Walker
Demands for justice grow as released footage shows the 25-year-old Black man getting shot at least 60 times by police.
Here’s Why Arab Americans Like Me Are Supporting Efforts to Defund the Police
As an Arab American whose community has endured chilling surveillance, I back the movement to defund the police.
Black Patients Are Regularly Denied Comprehensive Info About Pregnancy Options
It’s time for our leaders to center Black folks in health care discussions and invest in an intersectional approach.
Canada’s Predictive Policing Tech Is Poorly Regulated Under AI Policy
As surveillance has become a fact of life, digital privacy must become a human right.
Uvalde Students Fought for Desegregation in 1970s. Now Let’s Rise Up for Them.
In the 1970s, Uvalde students led the struggle for equal opportunity within Texas's segregated school system.
In Debates Over Prison Closures, Don’t Prioritize “Economic Impact” Over Lives
Towns that rely on a system that criminalizes and cages human beings need to rethink how their economies are organized.
Black Feminism Insists That We Not Treat the Attack on “Roe” as Isolated Issue
The plan to overturn “Roe” occurs in the context of a larger right-wing backlash that is both gendered and racialized.
The GOP Is Attacking LGBTQ Rights in Schools. These Students Are Fighting Back.
Anti-racist and LGBTQ youth are organizing in school to resist the onslaught of Republican attempts to silence them.
“Innocent” White People Are Also Complicit in the Anti-Black Murders in Buffalo
We can’t let the more quotidian operations of whiteness, which feed anti-Black violence every day, off the hook.