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Race

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

Kathleen Belew, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, & David Hogg

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader
Boston Review
A Juneteenth reading list on racial capitalism, resistance, and remaking the world.

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

Paul Gowder

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

Payton Croskey, Kenia Hale, Nate File

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

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & David Hogg
Rosie Gillies
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.

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

Meena Krishnamurthy

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

Ruha Benjamin, Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse, Dorothy Roberts

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

Max Haiven
Inspired by the work of James and Grace Lee Boggs, many young Detroit activists are turning to forms of mutual aid to meet the needs of their communities.
Nate File

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

Robin D. G. Kelley
Every city I’ve lived in has been filled with racism, whether out in the open or hidden in an invisible dialogue of economics and housing. Birmingham taught me to never question what it meant to be a Black American.
Randall Horton

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

Randall L. Kennedy

By casting doubt on multiracial working-class solidarity, Jay Caspian Kang's critique of professional identity politics fails on its own terms.

Lucy Song

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

Dorothy Roberts, Nia T. Evans

During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

Jonna Perrillo

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

Bethany Moreton
A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.
Éric Morales-Franceschini

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

Ileana Nachescu
A history of imperial forgetting.
David Roediger
After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.
Sara Matthiesen

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie, & Nia T. Evans
Rosie Gillies
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.

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