By Alicia Garza, Participants in the Cleveland convening of the Movement for Black Lives take part in an impromptu dance and drumming circle on the campus of Cleveland State University….
By Roque Planas NEW YORK — Black activists and immigrant groups across the country are pressing the Obama administration to take a stronger stand on what they call a human…
A neighborhood on Chicago’s Westside. (photo: Reuters) By Emily Badger There are neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago where nearly every block has been painted red — a sign,…
By: Theresa Thompson While speaking at the NAACP national convention earlier this month, President Barack Obama endorsed “banning the box” on job applications so that formerly incarcerated people, like…
By Mark Winston Griffith His nickname was Mike-Mike and his favorite color was blue. The morning workshop portion on the first day of the gathering was over, and the afternoon…
By Alma Carten Am I not a man emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery. The image is from a book from 1788, so there can be no effective…
July 25, 2015 BernieSanders.com Thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Thank you for the work you continue to do as leaders in civil rights. You…
By Deirdre Fulton Documents released to The Intercept by the Department of Homeland Security show that the federal agency monitored National Moment of Silence protests like the one pictured above, in…
By Sonali Kolhatkar Activist Jasmine Richards talks about Black Lives Matter with Sonali Kolhatkar in Pasadena. (Photo: ‘Uprising’ Radio via YouTube) On July 24, The Movement for Black Lives National…
By Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton Community and Occupy activists protest foreclosures, Brooklyn, December 2011 (Joe Lustri/Flickr) When President Lyndon Johnson gave his June 4,…
By Jamil Smith These days you’re not organizing for direct action and protests—particularly for black liberation—if you’re not doing it online. Which is why I wasn’t at all surprised to…
By Hisham Aidi So far this year, 14 Afro-Colombian youths have been killed in the Colombian capital, writes Aidi [EPA] On April 9, two Afro-Colombian men, both 20 years old…