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David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
The militarization of gun culture in the United States reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule.
In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present.
Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The McCloskeys are also only a symptom of how racism is served by private property.
In many states, legal regimes sanction the predictable murder of innocent black men. Justice will not be served until the law changes.
We must reject the current legal regime under which resisting arrest is so widely accepted as a justification for police brutality and officer shootings.
The link between modern policing and the U.S. national security state means they will have to be democratized together.
Through online fan communities and digital platforms like TikTok, popular music is finding powerful new ways to shape everyday activism, protest, and resistance.
White gay men and trans women of color often have little in common.
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