Karima Sorel: What Would a White Woman Do?
While white women are protected and treated as the “weaker sex,” Black women have been cultivating a culture of matriarchal strength and endurance.
Abby Zimet: 75-year-old Chinese woman fights back against hate
She says we must not submit to racism, and we must fight to the death if necessary.
Jeffrey Sterling: What Happened on January 6th was America the Usual
As the drama has unfolded, the powerful words from James Baldwin linger in my mind when he said “How much time do you want for your progress?”
George Yancy: Cornel West | The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style”
We are bluesmen and women and we are never, ever surprised by evil, we are never ever paralyzed by despair.
George Yancy: White Journalists Are Still Using the N-Word. This Is an Intolerable Assault on Black Freedom.
Two white journalists have stirred debate over their use of the n-word. Historian Elizabeth Pryor offers her analysis. When I read about the two Black Capitol Police officers who were … Continue reading
Jose Padua: To the Ruling Class and All the Fearful Acolytes of Its Pale Supremacy
the sweetly subtle strength of a great
and rarely spoken language
Rebecca Gordon: The Fire Next Time
If we do succeed in destroying ourselves, it seems increasingly likely that it will be by fire, whether the accelerating heating of the globe over decades, or a nuclear conflagration any time we choose. The good news, the flame of hope, is that we still have time — at least 100 seconds — to prevent it.
A.C. Thompson: The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government.
The failure to deal with the radicalization within the ranks of the military has unleashed people who are highly trained in how to kill.
Bernie Sanders: We Must Act With Unprecedented Boldness to Meet These Historical Crises
The job of Congress now is to listen to the American people, move our country boldly forward on a path to economic success and show voters that Democrats are prepared to do everything possible to improve their lives.
Richard Levine: One Night in America
The first time I noticed my hands
trembling, I was still a young man,
just returned from a war…
George Yancy: Capitol Mob Reveals Ongoing Refusal to Accept Black Votes as Legitimate
Frederick Douglass embraced the promise of the Declaration, even while he condemned the United States as a land of hypocrisy, because people talk about freedom, but in fact they deprive millions of their freedom.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: This Is America
We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us, we’re asking you to NOT shoot us like you don’t shoot them…
Derrick Z. Jackson: 2020 unmasked the truth about ‘all lives matter’
This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people.
Paul Christensen: The Testament of Winter
The wind last night was fierce and numbingly cold. It moved like a carving knife through the remaining remnants of summer, easing away the reluctant last memories we have of the warm and sunny past.
