How Immigrant Essential Workers Are Finding Support During COVID-19
Our healthcare and food systems depend on immigrant workers, including those who are undocumented. Greater protections for them would be good for everyone.
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Dismantling John C. Calhoun鈥檚 Racist Legacy
Despite being an avid proponent of slavery, the historical figure has been quite prominent in American society鈥攁nd not just in the South.
What We Can Learn from Costa Rica鈥檚 Embrace of Migrants
A growing number of political exiles from Nicaragua are putting their experience and activism to work in their adopted country.
The Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Ruling Is Just the Beginning
Many other things need to change before LGBTQ+ people can thrive in our workplaces, especially those of us who are Black.
Truth-Telling Leads to Racial Healing, Studies of Other Countries Show
Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.
The Confederate Flag Represents Sexual Violence
To claim the flag represents Southern pride is an egregious whitewashing of history.
How a Black Commons Could Help Build Communal Wealth
A long history of racism has prevented many Black folks from owning land or homes鈥攎aking it harder to accrue wealth and pass it on to future generations.
The U.S. Has Always Exploited Immigrants During Pandemics
Throughout history, immigrants have borne the brunt not just of a pandemic, but the U.S. government鈥檚 disproportionate and cruel response to it.
The Chronic Stress of Being Black in the U.S. Makes People More Vulnerable to COVID-19 and Other Diseases
Racism is a chronic, uncontrollable, and unpredictable stress that can wreak havoc on the mind and body.
The Supreme Court Upholds DACA. So What Now?
The decision by the high court comes in the midst of a global pandemic and an uprising in the wake of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police that lays bare the extend of racial injustice in this country.
The Movement for Black Lives Has Always Been Spiritual
When the Rev. Al Sharpton implored White America to 鈥済et your knee off our necks鈥� at the memorial of George Floyd, his words were carried by news outlets across the globe.
What Fugitive Slave Ads Reveal About the Roots of Black Resistance in the United States
Freedom on the Move is a database collecting these ads, which help form a more complete picture of slavery and the enslaved.
鈥淚t鈥檚 About Terrorizing Us鈥�: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality
鈥淚f this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.鈥�
Let鈥檚 Get to the Root of Racial Injustice
鈥淲hat if we placed freedom from racist violence at the crux of what it means to be free and equal in the United States?鈥�
Nondiscrimination Against LGBT People Is Now Law鈥攁nd Workplaces Will Benefit
Research suggests that organizations that are more inclusive tend to perform better than those that aren鈥檛.
How the Supreme Court Undermined the Black Vote
Black Americans braved police violence at Selma and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court鈥檚 Shelby decision ushered in a new era of racially targeted voter suppression.
A Culture Shift Can Only Happen With Reparations and Truth Telling
In this new movement of mass protest against police violence, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy, we will settle for nothing less than total transformation.
Indigenous Artists Use Technology to Tell Stories About Their Ancestral Lands
These five art projects explore the impacts of climate change using VR and other mediums.
Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal
Along with community care, accountability, and the disruption of oppressive systems.
There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice
鈥淲ithout a focus on correcting injustice, work on climate change addresses only symptoms, and not root causes.鈥�
Community Conversation: How Can We Ensure That Black Lives Really Matter?
We鈥檙e witnessing a global uprising in response to police violence against Black people and the systemic racism that pervades American culture. There has been an invigoration of the movement for
Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice
Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.
10 Indigenous People Whose Statues Should Replace Columbus鈥�
In a country of this size and diversity, it makes little sense to cling to statues that honor only a few, including historical figures unworthy of such acclaim.
Anti-Fascism Versus the Police, 1980s-Style
The Richmond Police Department was known for being 鈥渢ough." But a grassroots campaign called 鈥淪top Killer Cops!鈥� exposed an active White supremacist group inside the force.
John Oliver Points to the White Supremacist Origins of Modern Policing
鈥淭his clearly isn鈥檛 about individual officers,鈥� Oliver said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 about a structure built on systemic racism that this country created intentionally, and now needs to be dismantled intentionally.鈥�
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