Judgment Days for John Muir and Margaret Sanger
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood of NY dismantle their own Monuments.
The Possible Housing Opportunity Provided by COVID-19
Reading Time: 9 minutes The coronavirus puts a strain on an already fraying housing market. With no relief in sight, residents try to hang onto their homes. Can inclusionary zoning help?
Black Africans Find Opportunity, Face Racism in China
Reading Time: 6 minutes Black African entrepreneurs flocked to the Chinese megalopolis to buy clothing or trade goods — but got more than they bargained for.
Reparations and Juneteenth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is $300,000 per person an extravagant amount to pay Black citizens for generational poverty originating with slavery?
What It Means to Be Black While Blue
Reading Time: 20 minutes A police lieutenant with more than 30 years on the force, who is the president of his Black Police Officers Association, gives a personal and inside look at policing.
Is It 1968 All Over Again?
Reading Time: 12 minutes The riots of 1967 and 1968 over racial injustice resulted in over 70 dead and many injured. How do they compare with what we are witnessing today?
The Real ‘Preexisting Conditions’ That Explain Black COVID Deaths
Reading Time: 5 minutes New report is a stunning indictment of racism and its economic and health consequences.
Will Nationalism and Fascism Rise Along With Sea Levels?
Reading Time: 4 minutes When rising temperatures and sea levels displace tens of millions of people in the near future, will these climate refugees be welcomed elsewhere or met with hostility? Here is a preview of what’s to come.
The ‘Plague’ of Fascism Infecting Trump’s America
Reading Time: 9 minutes The belated recognition of white supremacists as a national security threat highlights historic fears of how a nation succumbs to fascism.
Inside the Ferguson Protests
Reading Time: 17 minutes A close look at what set off the Ferguson riots five years ago, and a closer look at the long-term abuse and predation the police subjected black citizens to every day.