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The Battle for Reality
What really happened at the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle? On television, it looked like vandalism and random violence. On the streets, it looked like part festival, part uprising, part police riot. Now there鈥檚 a movie version. Activist and author David Solnit was there鈥攐rganizing in the streets and speaking up on the set.
David Solnit | Jul 30, 2008
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What I Learned From My Weeklong Obsession with Rachel Dolezal
Is Rachel Dolezal blacker than I am, or a misguided white woman in need of a reality check? I asked two black women鈥攐ne who worked with Dolezal and another who is a leader in the #BlackLivesMatter movement鈥攖o weigh in.
Liz Pleasant | Jun 20, 2015
Democracy
Detroit Bankrupt? Six Ways the Motor City Is Thriving
National media accounts of Detroit's bankruptcy miss the growing industries, strong communities, and policy changes laying the foundation's for the city's recovery.
Larry Gabriel | Sep 07, 2013
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Pulse Wasn鈥檛 About Me. But Covering It Changed Me
As one of the few out queer journalists covering the tragedy on the ground, I learned that my identity served my work, not hindered it.
Sunnivie Brydum | Jun 12, 2019
Environment
Real Climate Solutions Must Include Human Rights
The authors of 鈥淭he Conceivable Future鈥 argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Josephine Ferorelli & Meghan Elizabeth Kallman | Feb 13, 2024
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The Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East
While the U.S. government refuses to use its considerable power as leverage for peace, ordinary Americans seem to know better.
Liz Theoharis | Nov 09, 2023
Fear of a Brown Planet: Watch This Stand-Up Comedian Explain ‘Reverse Racism’
Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.
Kali Swenson | May 28, 2014
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How White Supremacy Intensifies Summer Heat
鈥淟ike racism, violence and white supremacy, heat is inextricable from the Black American experience.鈥
Ida Harris | Aug 30, 2019
Health & Happiness
Me Too Creator Tarana Burke Reminds Us This Is About Black and Brown Survivors
There鈥檚 another 鈥渕e too鈥 story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Jan 04, 2018
Democracy
Why Defending Human Rights Is Women鈥檚 Work
鈥淚t is important to celebrate these women who are building a more peaceful world that is open, just, and filled with love.鈥
Rucha Chitnis | Mar 08, 2017
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25 Years Later: How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Inspired Global Uprisings from Occupy to Ferguson
Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics. If ever there was a time in modern history that exemplified such a moment, it was the second half of 1989.
Mark Engler & Paul Engler | Nov 08, 2014
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The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership
Many people of color are faced with uneasy support for a civil right that began as a way to oppress them.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Mar 13, 2018
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What the Abortion Bans Have to do With Poverty and Race
As I weighed my options and briefly flirted with the idea of becoming a parent, I thought about the life that I would be able to provide my child.
Renee Bracey Sherman | May 25, 2016
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My Life-Changing Switch to Only TV Shows That Feature Real Black Lives
Three years ago I left behind television鈥檚 traditional White male narrative and found shows that affirm Blackness.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Jun 07, 2018
Health & Happiness
The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care
Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions.