A Friday conference brought Harvard’s extensive historical connections to slavery into sharp relief, with some participants encouraging the University to consider monetary reparations.
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By Jamila Johnson and Yamily Habib – In 1908, when 15,000 women marched through New York City to demand shorter work hours, better pay and the right to vote, no one was ready to call it a movement.
By Jonathan Capehart – “The average enslaved person was sold about four or five times in a lifetime.”
By Mark Weisbrot – It is nice to see the term “deep state” popping up more than ever in mainstream media discussions of the Trump transition. I prefer “permanent government,” though, because it has fewer conspiratorial overtones, and this is not about conspiracy theories. In fact, it has become perhaps more open than ever.
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. – Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress last night was arduous, to say the least. There are so many things that can be said about the speech, not the least being how many inaccuracies were mouthed by Trump. I wish that I could say that was the most disturbing part, but it was not.
By James Kilgore – This story is the second in a new Truthout series, Severed Ties: The Human Toll of Prisons. This series will dive deeply into the impact of incarceration on families, loved ones and communities, demonstrating how the United States’ incarceration of more than 2 million people also harms many millions more — including 2.7 million children.
By Alexandra Rosenmann – “Some of the biggest backers of Donald Trump’s presidency were for-profit prison operators.”
By Chris Hedges – Steve Bannon’s fascist yearnings are the cornerstone of Trump’s immigration policy.
By Rebekah Barber – The courts have found that voter ID laws intentionally discriminate against voters of color. Now newly published research offers details about the laws’ politically suppressive effects.
By Barbara Ransbury – Revolution! The word means different things to different people. It has been made seductive by the work of artists like Lin-Manuel Miranda, in his groundbreaking musical, Hamilton…
More white Obama voters switched to third-party candidates than voted for Trump, yet the media won’t let it go.
He recognizes the need for a big-picture approach to political challenges that includes a “Right to Vote Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution.
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