By Wayne Campbell — “After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no State, because the State arose as an instrument to…
By Emilio Godoy, IPS — One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
By Emilio Godoy, IPS — Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left them as an afterthought. That was the…
All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday. By Jordan Coley, The New Yorker…
I think of the current Critical Race Theory controversy more as a Ziploc bag: a quick, easy place to stuff American history and get it out of the way, so…
By Juana Summers, NPR — Seven months ago, a House committee advanced a bill to study reparations for slavery, after more than three decades of efforts to build support for the idea….
By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch — Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high…
Newark will issue a Request for Proposals to invite community-based organizations to participate over next three years; Initiatives to address trauma, health disparities, and social determinants as a health issue…
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals. By Ana…
By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon — In recent years, Danny Glover has used his formidable acting chops and Hollywood connections to boost a series of independent films that might…
By Ronald Cohen, TIME — Throughout my life I have been greatly helped. In 1957, when I was 11 years old, my family and I left Egypt as refugees in…
By Eloise Barry, TIME — The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country…