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"Our only hope for our collective liberation," writes Michelle Alexander, "is a politics of deep solidarity rooted in love."

Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues – Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response

Too cozy with the hospital lobby and pharmaceutical industry, the Massachusetts congressman has failed constituents during the COVID crisis.

A system that pins health insurance to employment makes health care a commodity rather than a right. Such a system is a textbook example of “institutional racism”—a system that looks “neutral” but that produces and reproduces the racial inequalities

Loot the labor and very being of people of African descent. When they rise in response, resist, and give as little as possible. Then wait for things to “calm down” and take back as much as possible.

Despite the numerous international agreements barring the use of tear gas in war, number of restrictions on its use for domestic crowd control: 0.

“Most of all, I feel that I cannot be complicit in any way when I’ve seen so many examples of soldiers and police acting in bad faith,” he said via an encrypted text message.

Che envisioned a new medicine, with doctors who would serve the greatest number of people with preventive care and public awareness of hygiene.

Protesters are in the streets demonstrating against police brutality and white supremacy to protect themselves and their communities because institutions have been killing black people in this country far longer than the coronavirus has.

“Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”