Tag: Race

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.