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Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

The planned closing of Mercy Hospital underscores the dramatic loss of maternity services in Chicago over the past year — reflecting the failure of local government agencies to adequately fund critical services in vulnerable communities.

The Disney Plus visual album is an opulent portrait of Black pride

Earlier this week, four labor leaders voted against including Medicare for All in the Democratic Party platform.

Decades of economic policies have allowed the 1 percent to prosper — even increasing their net worth by billions of dollars during the pandemic — while disinvesting in the public good has left almost everyone else behind.

This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control.

Israeli settlers, hoping to beat Trump’s “Deal of a Century” plan to the punch, occupied the West Bank village of Battir. Under Trump’s plan Battir would remain Palestinian, so armed settlers are moving to create irreversible “facts on the ground.”

More than a century and a half before the American Revolution, a human hierarchy had evolved on the soil of the future United States. To comprehend the current upheavals one must understand the human pyramid encrypted into us all: the caste system.

The long march is a strategy to abolish existing structures and the institutions that reproduce them. It is a process of working politically from within, pushing boundaries through agitation not negotiation, and creating a counter public-sphere.

Even campaigns that may not reach their objective can contribute to explaining what is happening on the ground and what the Palestinian people are calling for, and to raising awareness about Israel’s regime of disposession and colonization.