Above Photo: Ahmirah Porter, 9, of Flint stands outside City Hall to protest Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s handling of the water crisis. (Jake May/ MLive.com) Residents and advocacy organizations are seeking…
Above Photo: TheRealNews.com. How Organizing and Social Movements Drove Changes to Federal Policy on Solitary Confinement Alan Mills of Uptown People’s Law Center and Bernadette Rabuy of Prison Policy Initiative…
By Nicholas Lemann National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art ResourceW.E.B. Du Bois; detail of a drawing by Winold Reiss, circa 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with…
By Jon Lee Anderson Before Michel Martelly was the President, he was Sweet Micky, a popular singer. Credit Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker A few months ago, a crowd…
By Amy Davidson Hillary Clinton speaks at a town-hall meeting in Iowa. CreditPhotograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty “Here’s the Senator’s ad,” Chris Cuomo, of CNN, said to Hillary Clinton, who was standing…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II National movement: Rev. William Barber (center) speaks to media at a Moral Monday rally in Albany, New York, in 2015. (Courtesy of North Carolina NAACP)…
By: Nigel Roberts Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, stands to the left of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on some issues. But many wonder whether he, after serving…
by Emma Lockridge On Jan. 15, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette vowed to investigate the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to determine whether any state laws were broken, resulting in lead contamination….
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the big problem for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He will either win outright or make a powerful second place showing in both the Iowa…
By Chauncey DeVega The well-being and political interests of African-Americans are routinely sacrificed on the mantle of political expediency in the United States. To wit. During an interview last week,…
By Page May The iconic Martin Luther King Jr. whom we are encouraged to celebrate – who single-handedly ended Jim Crow with one epic, color-blind speech – bears little…
By Peter Derier As we celebrate his birthday, it is easy to forget that Rev. Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist. In 1964, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in…