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Several local unions have moved to oust police unions, despite the federation's approach that collective bargaining can be used for police reform.

Taken all together these staffer memoirs offer a sense of something that no outsider can ever completely understand: what it’s like to live in Trump World.

Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.

"The current moment should force us to confront the reality that, for too long, we have invested in the wrong priorities, the wrong tools, and the wrong solutions."

Federal officials rapidly closed many complaints without issuing citations, raising new questions over government inaction

Facebook ad boycott, the threat of facial recognition tech, and more

"I stand with Black Lives Matter but still, as I watched the obligatory scene of Vietnamese soldiers getting shot and killed for the thousandth time, I thought: Does it make any difference if politically conscious Black men kill us?"

Chris Brooks looks at the data supporting a BLM- and coronavirus-inspired strike wave.

The debate over Aunt Jemima and other food mascots and their own problematic brand marketing stirred up a lot of curiosity about food and race; these books about food and Black identity add to the conversation.

"One of the most terrifying sounds on earth,” Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi recalls, is “the screeching roar of supersonic warplanes diving to attack.”