Joshua Scheer At a recent House Homeland Security Committee hearing, FBI official Michael Glasheen — operations director of the Bureau’s National Security Branch — described the anti-fascist movement antifa as…
Deputy Sean Grayson didn’t turn on his body camera until after he’d shot Sonya Massey three times.
King’s lifetime saw substantial economic progress for Black Americans, but in our century progress has slowed to a crawl. Here’s how we get it back on track.
Here’s what we can learn from abolitionists who are organizing in some of the most conservative parts of the country.
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter A police department in Virginia has twisted the state’s freedom of information law to try and block the names of officers from being shared…
The singer, who died on Wednesday, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of Black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd.
By Maya Boddie / AlterNet A DC judge has ordered a group of Proud Boys members to pay over $1 million for their role in destroying property belonging to a…
Broken windows policing reflects racialized assumptions about what is disorder and which communities are disorderly.
Politicians fire teachers and ban books, but more and more Americans are standing up against this effort to erase our history.
Big trucks, aggressively driven, straddle the borderline between a democracy in crisis and a country (and world) facing a climate emergency of the first order.
Arianna Delane, the four-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd, was taken to the hospital in the early hours of New Years Day following what appears to be a targeted shooting. The…
As we enter 2022, many activists from BLM and other movements face years in prison. We must build a movement to demand their freedom, both to protect those specific people…
Talib Williams, an incarcerated person at Correctional Training Facility in California, is filing a lawsuit against the state prison system for a raid that targeted Black people last summer.
Nothing could be more typically American than Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder spree and its aftermath.
