Civil rights

How to Protect the Vote

How to Protect the Vote How to Protect the Vote

Democrats face significant obstacles in the fight to strengthen voting rights.

Jan 21, 2015 / Feature / Ari Berman

Martin Luther King Jr.

A National Day of Service Is No Honor to MLK A National Day of Service Is No Honor to MLK

Service, without activism, doesn’t capture King’s true radicalism.

Jan 19, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Honor King’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights

Honor King’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights Honor King’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights

The right to vote is under the most sustained attack since King marched from Selma to Montgomery.

Jan 16, 2015 / Ari Berman

Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement

Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement

Pushing this country forward takes more than a sympathetic president.

Jan 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History

What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History

It took MLK’s activism and LBJ’s leadership to pass the Voting Rights Act.

Jan 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons

How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons

In their quest to wipe out extra-legal racial violence, white liberals created a system that continues to kill black people—legally.

Jan 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Vicky Osterweil

Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner

Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner

Poet Crystal Valentine: “Maybe politics aren’t Armageddon enough for us”

Dec 22, 2014 / Leslie Savan

Lynching Is Torture and Torture Is Lynching

Lynching Is Torture and Torture Is Lynching Lynching Is Torture and Torture Is Lynching

Alexander Cockburn, Jonathan Schell and others on “the habit of torture,” baked into society itself.

Dec 15, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

The Life and Times of Michael B

The Life and Times of Michael B The Life and Times of Michael B

Ferguson has put America’s racial apartheid on the global stage.

Dec 9, 2014 / John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus

Activists Stage a ‘Royal Shutdown’ of Barclays Center

Activists Stage a ‘Royal Shutdown’ of Barclays Center Activists Stage a ‘Royal Shutdown’ of Barclays Center

Last night, hundreds of protesters converged on the Cavaliers-Nets game to continue to demand justice in the wake of the Eric Garner case.

Dec 9, 2014 / Muna Mire

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