Racism and Discrimination

How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System

How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System

Despite predictions of an epidemic of child abuse, the temporary shutdown of the child welfare system showed us the promise of a radically different approach.

Apr 29, 2022 / Dorothy Roberts

Ketanji Brown Jackson

What Can Ketanji Brown Jackson Do for Abortion Access? What Can Ketanji Brown Jackson Do for Abortion Access?

Reproductive justice organizers in Texas know that, alas, the newly confirmed justice can’t save them.

Apr 28, 2022 / Njera Keith

Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People

Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People

Though a virus may not be able to discriminate, our society has in fact discriminated in the most virulent ways.

Apr 22, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

The Right Targets Queer Theory

The Right Targets Queer Theory The Right Targets Queer Theory

Christopher Rufo, the man behind the moral panic over “critical race theory,” has fabricated another foe. 

Apr 19, 2022 / Candace Bond-Theriault with The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School

“Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence

“Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence “Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence

A conversation with public defender Jason Wu, who says if we do not learn from history, we risk misdiagnosing the problems—and applying remedies that will continue to fail us.

Apr 18, 2022 / Q&A / Panthea Lee

Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy

Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found hope and resistance in the ruins of the American city.

Apr 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jared Loggins

Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women

Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women

The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.

Apr 18, 2022 / Feature / Panthea Lee

The Color of Water

The Color of Water The Color of Water

In one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, residents of the California’s colonias still don’t have access to clean running water.

Apr 16, 2022 / Feature / David Bacon

Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS

Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS

The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.

Apr 15, 2022 / Robert Ross

Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight

Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight

As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.

Apr 15, 2022 / Dave Zirin

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