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“Fanning the flames of racial animosity lies at the core of Trump’s election strategy, as it did in 2016.” This is why when activists say, “white supremacy is on the ballot” and “anti-Black racism is on the ballot” in 2020, they are dead right.

I continue to seek healing in the kitchen, the way I recover from the churning news cycle of sickness and police violence.

There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change figures prominently.

How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended

Eric Foner, the pre-eminent historian of the civil war and Reconstruction, sees parallels with our own time but warns yesterday’s solution would be a disaster

Taken together, or alone, the reasons offered in defense of the bomb do not justify the massacre of civilians. We debase ourselves, and the history of civilization, if we accept that Japanese atrocities warranted an American atrocity in reply.

With 80,000 mem­bers today, UMWA is more of a retirees’ orga­ni­za­tion than a fight­ing union — at rough­ly 1.6 mil­lion mem­bers, the AFT is one of the largest unions in the coun­try. The former opposes the Green New Deal, the latter supports.

This episode of Black-ish, which, if it had come out when it was supposed to, would have been a time capsule of where we were as a nation a year into Trump’s presidency.

The legal justice system does everything it possibly can to strip people behind bars of their humanity, separate them from their families, and not provide the adequate care that human beings deserve.

We do not have to choose between “winning” or “bearing witness and representing." There is no contradiction. In order to bear witness and represent, people must put themselves forward as candidates for social and political victory,