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Opinion | Coronavirus Coverage | Black Lives Matter | Protests | Youth Voices

Love, Justice, and Common Humanity: A Student鈥檚 Perspective on Finding Hope

Because the humanity of every person is what we fight for when we advocate to end police violence, to support better treatment for COVID patients and doctors, or to institute justice everywhere.

Miriam Awan | Jul 14, 2020

Racism in the U.S. Health Care System Is Costing Black Lives

Health inequity for Black people in the U.S. is not a new phenomenon. But COVID-19 shined a light on the problem鈥攁nd it鈥檚 costing lives.

Tamika C.B. Zapolski, Ukamaka M. Oruche | Jul 9, 2020

Opinion | Antiracism | Black Lives Matter | Racial Equity

As Non-Black POC, We Need to Address Anti-Blackness

While Indigenous and other people of color traditionally lack the power to enact racism, we can and do exercise clear racial prejudice against Black people.

Ana Cecilia P茅rez | Jul 6, 2020

Analysis | Economy | Wealth Inequality

How a Black Commons Could Help Build Communal Wealth

A long history of racism has prevented many Black folks from owning land or homes鈥攎aking it harder to accrue wealth and pass it on to future generations.

Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone | Jun 26, 2020

The Chronic Stress of Being Black in the U.S. Makes People More Vulnerable to COVID-19 and Other Diseases

Racism is a chronic, uncontrollable, and unpredictable stress that can wreak havoc on the mind and body.

April Thames | Jun 23, 2020

What Fugitive Slave Ads Reveal About the Roots of Black Resistance in the United States

Freedom on the Move is a database collecting these ads, which help form a more complete picture of slavery and the enslaved.

Shoshi Parks | Jun 19, 2020

鈥淚t鈥檚 About Terrorizing Us鈥�: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality

鈥淚f this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.鈥�

Carol Linnitt | Jun 18, 2020

How the Supreme Court Undermined the Black Vote

Black Americans braved police violence at Selma and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court鈥檚 Shelby decision ushered in a new era of racially targeted voter suppression.

Lawrence Goldstone | Jun 16, 2020

Opinion | Reparations | Antiracism

A Culture Shift Can Only Happen With Reparations and Truth Telling

In this new movement of mass protest against police violence, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy, we will settle for nothing less than total transformation.

David Ragland | Jun 16, 2020

Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal

Along with community care, accountability, and the disruption of oppressive systems.

Jade Begay | Jun 15, 2020

There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

鈥淲ithout a focus on correcting injustice, work on climate change addresses only symptoms, and not root causes.鈥�

Evelyn Nieves, Ilana Cohen, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle | Jun 12, 2020

Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice

Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.

Lornet Turnbull | Jun 11, 2020

Opinion | Confederate Statues | Native Leadership

10 Indigenous People Whose Statues Should Replace Columbus鈥�

In a country of this size and diversity, it makes little sense to cling to statues that honor only a few, including historical figures unworthy of such acclaim.

Mark Trahant | Jun 11, 2020

Opinion | Racial Equity

It鈥檚 Time For a Black New Deal

We鈥檝e known for years what we needed to do to address poverty and systemic racism in America. It's long past time to just do it.

Chris Winters | Jun 8, 2020

7 Ways Protesters Showed Up for Black Lives

Amid the outpouring of outrage over George Floyd鈥檚 killing, are glimpses of solidarity and hope around the world.

Lornet Turnbull | Jun 2, 2020

Opinion | Coronavirus Coverage | Black Lives Matter

As Chicago Reopens, We Can鈥檛 Forget Our Black Youth

Young Black people have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus shutdown. As we reopen, their unique needs should be met.

Steve Gates | Jun 1, 2020

Opinion | Coronavirus Coverage | White Privilege | Antiracism

Antiracist Parenting During COVID-19 and Beyond

The cultural work we do in our homes and the activism we do to end systems of oppression may look different during this pandemic, but it matters all the more.

Jardana Peacock, Rachel Parsons | May 19, 2020

Opinion | Coronavirus Coverage | API Stories

How I Found Racial Healing During the Pandemic

There鈥檚 no upside to the uptick in anti-Asian violence, but I鈥檓 glad to see more of us awakened and speaking out.

JS LEE | May 12, 2020

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