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What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

We won't stop the killings until we address all of the causes.

Sixty-year-old Keith Hunter lived in St. James, Louisiana, for roughly 27 years, and during that time, he watched as the sugarcane farms gave way to oil storage tanks and as a railroad terminal was being built down the road, all visible from his front yard.

The King we rarely talk about fought to remake America’s political and economic system from the ground up.

For the first time we have raw data on the magnitude of the eviction crisis that so many people in our communities already know from firsthand experience.

The fortunes of the African refugee community targeted by the Israeli government for deportation have swung wildly in recent days.

“Max Elbaum has given us an incisive and critical history of the Other New Left – the radicals who brought class struggle and Third World liberation to the forefront, looked to the world for allies, and tried their best to work through the dynamics of race and class.

The language of the moment suggests that it's Blackness that's the problem, not bias.

Today's Poor People's Campaign seeks to develop local leadership, including strong representation of the millions of poor people — black, brown, and white — to create a multi-racial, multi-gendered, intergenerational movement to heal the racial and economic divides tearing America apart.

The Nakba is not a just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. We can accept that we all must eventually die; in Gaza, the tragedy is that we don’t get to live.