The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections.
James Campbell worked in the civil rights movement with Jack O’Dell, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X and Bob Moses; in the theater and contributed to the influential Freedomways journal co-founded by W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois. Now at 95, a tribute.
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The scholar and activist has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up.
Faced with the prospect of losing power, the President has gone beyond mere scaremongering and resorted to fomenting unrest from the White House.
The agency’s new guidelines are wrong, so states have to step up on their own to suppress the coronavirus.
The Los Angeles School Board voted to cut $70 million a year budget of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) by $25 million—35%—and move those funds to programs focused on the needs of Black students.
Defunding the police is the first step in a longer process that may culminate in the end of policing in the United States. The repeated failure of meaningful reform have made concepts like “defunding” and “abolition” part of mainstream conversation.
“There hasn’t been a Democratic primary for Senate like this in generations,” Ubertaccio said. “[Ted] Kennedy and [John] Kerry held the seats for so long. [Elizabeth] Warren really cleared the field when she ran. So the suspense is unusual.
Ever since COVID-19 collided with the enormous bubble governments have been using to re-float the financial sector since 2008, booming equity markets became compatible with wholesale economic implosion. That became clear on August 12
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