Who Is Afraid of Race?

Panashe Chigumadzi Boston Review
There is a cost to advancing caste as the preeminent analytic in place of race—we lose the precision that comes with naming our affliction a problem of anti-Blackness.

Talking Socialism | Catching up with AOC

Don McIntosh Democratic Socialists of America
You cannot say nothing will change. We can make the argument that not enough is changing fast enough. These are not nitpicking questions, because this is how the language we use communicates to individuals who is included, who you consider a person.

On a Quilt of Oppressions and Injustices

An Thuy Nguyen Portside
The mass shooting in Atlanta was many things, but it was NOT a white man's "bad day." It was, surely, another day of being a woman and an Asian person struggling to leave their marks on a blemished patchwork quilt.

House Dems Unveil Bill to Stop Assault on USPS

Kenny Stancil Common Dreams
"We will not allow Trump's handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to slow down mail delivery, cut hours at post offices, and sabotage the Postal Service," said Bernie Sanders.

Little Black Boy

Lois Fried
Writing from personal experience, Lois Fried traces the divide from days of Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter.

POISONED

Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray Tampa Bay Times
Man sitting on a stoop.
Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

Feds Consider Sedition Charges

Seth takes a closer look at the former top prosecutor for the Capitol riots saying that evidence from the attack could support sedition charges as federal investigators continue to examine Trump’s role in fomenting the insurrection.