How an “undeserving” kid like me
got admitted to Stanford
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.
The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.
Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Diversity Not a Compelling Interest; Pay The Writers (And Actors); Outrage Over Medicaid Purge; German Left; Remembering Gus Newport; Charlene Mitchell; Cartoons; more....
Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that he and the freedom movement endured. It largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor
Frustrated at the military's pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary.
Reader Comments: Daniel Ellsberg; Winning Working Class Voters; RFK, Jr.; Mental Health Crisis; Unhoused; Chile; Sudan; National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Turns 50; Cartoons; more....
“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.
The holiday’s 158-year history holds a lot of meaning in the fight for Black liberation today.
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