How Is Black Lives Matter Winning?
Minneapolis protesters’ call to #ReleasetheTapes exemplifies the movement’s strategic use of symbolic demands to win in the court of public opinion.
Minneapolis protesters’ call to #ReleasetheTapes exemplifies the movement’s strategic use of symbolic demands to win in the court of public opinion.
Michael Javen Fortner and Marie Gottschalk debate criminal justice reform, Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at CUNY’s Murphy Institute.
To seek liberation for black people is also to destabilize inequality in the United States at large, and to create new possibilities for all who live here.
It is time to think about class. The insurgencies we most need today are the insurgencies of large numbers.
A left that doesn’t relish arguing with itself is a left that’s not prepared to change the world.
The women of Black Lives Matter are not bending to the demands of respectability politics. They are carving out space for black women to fight for justice.
One year after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that made Ferguson shorthand for economic, political, and carceral injustice remain unchanged.
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
The fall of the Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina, has been over fifty years in the making. What does it mean for the state, for the South, and for the nation?
What are the visions and complaints, accomplishments and limits of the largest and most important movements on the left today?
South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
Ethiopian-Israelis face systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of the police. But comparisons to #BlackLivesMatter in the United States do not capture the complexities of their situation.
This May Day, we bring you voices from the streets of Baltimore and Long Beach—where unions are helping mobilize their communities against police terror and for economic justice—and from a West Coast Walmart, where activist Venanzi Luna has been leading the fight against union-busting. Plus: Whatever happened to the eight-hour day?
Following Wednesday’s nationwide protests for a living wage, Sarah and Michelle spoke with workers in New York and Atlanta about why they joined the Fight for $15 movement and what they hope it will achieve.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is one of the few in the United States that invites us to strike a reflective pose. Each year communities volunteer in massive service projects, children don their Sunday best and memorize great works of …