The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today.
Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.
Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Trump Does Not Have Mandate; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing-- Virtual Training; more....
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.
Reader Comments: Trump Plan - End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death as Profit Industry - $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria - A Caution; New Resource - Elections and Health Policy; Take Action
Marcantonio, like other notable Harlem figures such as writers Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, practiced what I call “living in difference,” or deeply engaging with those who are unlike you for a shared project.
Reader Comments: Trump Cabinet; Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter; Democrats Touted Ground Game; Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism; Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague; Model for City Officials Protecting Targeted Communities;
The Thanksgiving Day Celebration originated From a Massacre - Let's Hear the Wampanoag side of the story. Here are some of the most common misconceptions about the November holiday.(from Indian Country Today, original published 2017.)
In Denton County, Texas, and across the US, a string of racist incidents raises fears white supremacists have been emboldened by Trump’s victory.
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