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Racial Justice
Report: Trump Admin Deployed Feds to Bring Harsher Charges on BLM Protesters
Throughout history, the federal government has worked to surveil and disrupt Black power movements.
House’s Hyde Amendment Vote Advances Abortion Justice and Racial Equity
Like other relics of racism and economic inequality, it is time to leave the Hyde Amendment in the past.
Human Rights Groups Demand Release of Sri Lanka Lawyer Held Months Without Trial
Sri Lanka has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to crack down on dissidents and civil liberties.
Bob Moses Embodied Collective Struggle for Black Freedom and Human Liberation
An educator, Moses also took action against war, imperialism and white supremacy. Let’s carry on his tradition.
Civil Rights Leader, Educator Bob Moses Dies at 86
Moses played a leading role in organizing Black voter registration drives in Mississippi during the 1960s.
Biden Upholds Last-Minute Trump Memo That Would Send 4,000 People Back to Prison
Thousands of people released because of the pandemic now face reincarceration.
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.
Wages Are Rising Unequally — With Black Men and Latinas Seeing the Fewest Gains
Disparities in wage raises are the latest example of the pandemic's unequal impacts.
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.