Racism

There is a troubling case in Michigan where Alan Barron, a public school teacher at Monroe Middle School, has been suspended for teaching an eighth grade class on racial …

Local governments want drones, tanks and SWAT teams for the same reason they want prisons and the death penalty: to keep us under control.

Many tens of thousands more are certain to die in fighting in South Sudan, but few Americans will blame their own country.

All across the country black children as young as kindergarteners have been hand cuffed and arrested as if they are adults.

Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.

A conference in Jackson drew about 500 participants, with the goal “to educate and mobilize the people of Jackson to meet the economic and sustainability needs of their community.”

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations, and discusses racism in history and the present.

Los Angeles activists' vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff's Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.

Amy Goodman spends the hour remembering the pioneering historian, theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Vincent Harding.

The United Kingdom Terrorism Act of 2000 gave courts the power to seize assets used to commit or promote terrorist activities, but was never intended to include the family …