The famous Operation Dixie campaign to unionize the South in the 1940s was mostly unsuccessful. Still, it left a positive mark on American society. It’s even possible that the civil rights movement wouldn't have staged the March on Washington without
Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. "I realized how similar what I was seeing was to the world my parents and grandparents were born into.”
The presidential election is now two months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is over-rated? This was Elon Musk's role in England. Now Trump is proposing him as our new Efficiency Czar.
Without specificity in definition and equal application to either party’s politicking based on identities, “identity politics” becomes yet another dog-whistle used against those who simply dare to not be white or male.
While Donald Trump and J.D. Vance try to tear an Ohio town apart, Ohioans themselves have a more heartening response. While the nasty headlines swirl around them, Springfielders and Ohioans are making a point of saying no to Trump and Vance’s message
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Faiza Shaheen reviews the memoir of UK Labour party MP Diane Abbot, who has held her seat since 1987. She is the first Black woman to be elected to parliament, and is the country's longest-serving female MP.
In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.
This is the best economy for Black Americans in generations, but that’s not enough to close the racial wealth divide on its own.
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