By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout President Obama in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2014. The Obama administration invited civil rights activists and leaders from around the country to the White House to…
By Mychal Denzel Smith Demonstrators protest the death of Eric Garner on August 23, 2014, in Staten Island. (AP Photo / John Minchillo) Most of the work of movement building takes place…
By Chris Hedges Above Photo: The Flint Water Plant tower in Michigan. (ehrlif / Shutterstock) What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did…
By Donna Murch In August 2015, an uncomfortable encounter between Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors and Hillary Clinton finally broke the silence of many mainstream press outlets on the Clintons’…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Tulsa burns in the race riots of 1921. Wikimedia There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations….
By Richard Eskow Economic inequality inspired Occupy Wall Street, a movement that in a few short months transformed our political discourse with the concept of the “1 percent” and the…
By Darryl Pinckney Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York City, 2012 In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor…
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 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 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 Christine Emba Taking it for granted that when you’re shopping alone, you probably won’t be followed or harassed. Knowing that if you ask to speak to “the person in charge,” you’ll…
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…