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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.
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
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.
By casting doubt on multiracial working-class solidarity, Jay Caspian Kang's critique of professional identity politics fails on its own terms.
The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.
During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
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Lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.
Professor of American History at UCLA
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