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.
Spring 2022
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[EVENT | December 10] How Should We Reform Criminal Justice?
Michael Javen Fortner and Marie Gottschalk debate criminal justice reform, Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at CUNY’s Murphy Institute.
The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter
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.
Back to Class
It is time to think about class. The insurgencies we most need today are the insurgencies of large numbers.
Why We Argue
A left that doesn’t relish arguing with itself is a left that’s not prepared to change the world.
Women and Black Lives Matter: An Interview with Marcia Chatelain
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.
Ferguson Revisited
One year after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that made Ferguson shorthand for economic, political, and carceral injustice remain unchanged.
The Next Civil Rights Movement?
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
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?
Introducing Our Summer Issue: American Movements
What are the visions and complaints, accomplishments and limits of the largest and most important movements on the left today?
Black Lives Matter in South Carolina
South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
Israel’s #BlackLivesMatter Moment?
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.
