By Janell Ross President Obama said the nation can no longer “close their eyes” to racial inequality in the criminal justice system as he called for reform during a speech…
By Brit Bennett Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as an open letter to his teen-age son. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN VOSS/REDUX The night Trayvon Martin’s killer walked…
By Nadia Prupis President Barack Obama spoke to the NAACP in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (Screenshot/YouTube) In a speech to the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia…
By Nkechi Taifa — President Obama changed 46 lives on Monday, commuting the prison terms of individuals who had been locked away serving long sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenses. “These…
By Dave ZirinTwitter Serena Williams wins the women’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) There are numerous…
By Ari Berman Voting rights activists march through downtown Winston-Salem. (Ari Berman) Winston-Salem—On the first day of the federal trial challenging North Carolina’s new voting restrictions, thousands of voting-rights activists…
Report: The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts…
By: Hope Wabuke Ta-Nehisi Coates “I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling…
By David Swanson – Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a…
By John Metta in The Huffington Post – I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story: It was probably about 15 years ago…
By Britney Schultz in Truthout – The plight of Indigenous children recently made headlines, as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a damning report calling the country’s long-held policy of…
By Harry Targ in Heartland Radical – The movements of global resistance have grown enormously, particularly since the recession of 2008, as has reaction. Violent reaction from rightwing movements, in…