How the New Black Activists Are Fighting Back in Ferguson

Young leaders are taking advantage of digital media to advance the conversation about police violence.

The Nation

Snapshot: ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!’

Running through a parking lot in Ferguson, Missouri, scrawled with messages dedicated to Michael Brown, a young boy smiles for the camera. From 2006 to 2012, a white police officer killed a black person at least twice a week in the United States. Read More

Lucas Jackson

Renewing the Struggle for Racial Justice, Post-Ferguson

We must face the true causes of the chasm between white and black America.

The Editors

A Q&A With Angela Davis on Black Power, Feminism and the Prison-Industrial Complex

“Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk toward freedom.”

Frank Barat

RIP, Robert Sherrill: A Man Who Never Kissed Ass

He was a passionate purist in his prose, his populist politics and his expectations of others and himself.

Victor Navasky

Zephyr Teachout for Governor of New York

A vote for Teachout is a demand for a more progressive, ideas-driven politics.

The Editors

Deep Pockets

Calvin Trillin

Obama Is Responsible for the Protests in Ferguson—but Not in the Way You Think

Despite his best efforts to be the embodiment of respectability, it turns out Barack Obama is a role model for resistance.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Letters

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