Prison construction becomes an attractive proposition in the face of poverty and the absence of other forms of private or public investment. To fight mass incarceration, we need different avenues for rural economic development.
A new rule proposed by Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development could allow landlords and real-estate brokers to get away with discrimination by blaming it on computer modeling.
While nativists used economic depression and global conflict to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment, a movement emerged in New York City’s liberal and left-wing circles to combat racism and forge connections between ethnic groups.
On the history of dispossession, disinvestment, and discrimination that formed the backdrop to the killing of Michael Brown.
According to a recent study, white voters who support anti-racist policies generally have less income than their more racist peers.
How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?
Jair Bolsonaro’s electorate—a loose coalition brought together by the candidate’s appeal to “bullets, bibles, and bulls”—stands perilously close to dragging Brazil back into authoritarianism.
In critical decisions on issues like voting rights and healthcare, the Supreme Court is using the guise of “federalism” to claw back hard-won progress toward racial justice.
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
The latest acquittal of a white police officer in St. Louis reflects a pattern of policing that consistently denies equal citizenship to the county’s black residents.
The films about slavery that came out during the Obama years have given us more powerful and nuanced representations of slavery than we have seen before.
Today, the term “ghetto” comes across as at best anachronistic, at worst offensive. Does it still have any value?
Hate crimes like last month’s Olathe, Kansas shooting reflect not only racist rhetoric but a broader climate of state violence against people of color.
A new generation of minority and Muslim women are taking the lead in the fight against racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration, and a general crackdown on civil liberties in France.
