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Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates on How Cities Are Winning Reparations for Slavery
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses reparations after Charlottesville.
Direct Action and Black Liberation: Insights From the BlackOUT Collective
We need concrete discussions about what's owed to people whose ancestors were enslaved, says Chinyere Tutashinda.
How Chicago Became the First City to Make Reparations to Victims of Police Violence
The ordinance provides a meaningful model for creating reparations at the local level.
Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future
If clean, renewable, community energy continues to expand, the arguments to restart nuclear power plants and build new coal power plants will no longer hold sway.
Is There a Nonviolent Path to a Livable Future? A Conversation With Chris Moore-Backman
There's a “movement of movements” taking place, knitting together a vast array of nonviolent social struggles.
What Should Reparations for Slavery Entail?
In addressing the issue of reparations, we must also address transforming the system of capitalism, to which slavery gave birth.
Dispatch From Little Rock: A Local Win in the Ongoing Fight Against Police Violence
Police shooting victim Eugene Ellison's family won the largest settlement ever reached in a Little Rock police case.
We Only Move Forward When We Demand the Impossible: An Interview With Bill Ayers
History shows that progress only happens when we refuse to limit ourselves to the art of the possible, says Bill Ayers.
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Clinton, Sanders and O’Malley Address Police Violence and White Privilege at Brown and Black Forum
The Iowa Brown & Black Forum took place as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are deadlocked in Iowa and New Hampshire polls.
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Moving On: The Logic of Slavery in the Reparations Debate
In Jamaica, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his answer to reparations loud and clear: “move on,” accompanied by funds to build a prison.