Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US.
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We Must Defend Black History — It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack Read Post »
“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.
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Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish Police Read Post »
Afrofuturism takes us to strange futures. In its kaleidoscope lens, the future is a canvas to imagine free Black life.
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As the Status Quo Shatters, Afrofuturists’ Visions Offer a Way Forward Read Post »
Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.
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A New Era of Scholarship Is Shining a Light on the Black Philosophical Tradition Read Post »
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
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The Web Is Not Enough — Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces Read Post »
In the summer of 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage at the NAACP’s 47th annual convention in San Francisco. Speaking at the precipice of the Civil Rights Movement, King cautioned that “the guardians of the status quo are always on hand with their oxygen tents to keep the old order alive.” Over the […]
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How the NAACP Signed Up to Abolish ICE Read Post »
Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
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Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told. Read Post »
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
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Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE Read Post »
From surveillance of racial justice organizing to terror under Trump’s Memphis task force, we face ongoing repression.
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MLK’s Struggle Against Policing and Surveillance Is Still Alive in Memphis Today Read Post »
Organizers share where they find hope in the struggle for disability justice as we go into the second year of Trump 2.0.
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Disability Justice Organizers Are Creating the Liberatory Future We All Deserve Read Post »
“Public power” organizers are pushing for democratized control and truly public ownership of our energy system.
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As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities Read Post »
The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government. “Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said. “I have […]
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A Decade of Reveal Read Post »
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