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“Dismantle structures and systems designed and shaped by enslavement, colonialism and successive racially discriminatory policies and systems.”

It’s time to end the war on drug users — repeal the heavy penalties for possession; pardon the millions of nonviolent offenders; replace mass incarceration with mandatory drug treatment; restore voting rights to convicts and ex-convicts.

The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s future.

A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Today many Black artists—women at the forefront—are taking similar strides.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.

Could there be a “hidden reality” that’s completely predictable, understandable, and deterministic underlying what we see?

India Walton has long been a force in Buffalo and a leader in the community land trust movement nationally. “The number one priority for communities similar to mine is to create power among the community and really harness that into political will."

The wars behind the breakup of Ygoslavia left hundreds of thousands of victims. Tribunals have blamed only local criminals, but not international ones—as they probably never will. Because here too, the truth was the first victim of the internal war.

Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.