How Environmental Organizations Can Cultivate Real Inclusivity
It鈥檚 one thing to recognize systemic racism; it鈥檚 another to actually do something about it.
Racial Justice
How to Find and Support Black-Owned Businesses
If you鈥檙e focused on fighting systemic racism and want to put your money where your mouth is, here are 7 ways to find Black businesses.
Hip-Hop Continues a Protest Tradition That Dates Back to the Blues
Hip hop artists have protested police violence in their music for decades, just like Southern blues and jazz artists did in the late 1800s.
How Black Photographers Are Shaping the Movement for Black Lives
Three photographers offer perspectives on documenting the moment: 鈥淭he revolution needs to be irresistible, right?鈥�
How Urban Planning Keeps Cities Segregated鈥攁nd Maintains White Supremacy
Across the U.S., racial segregation was not the byproduct of urban planning but often its intention. Minneapolis, one of the most liberal cities in the country, is no exception.
Biden Still Needs to Earn Our Vote
Earning the vote of Black American voters requires acknowledgment of our issues and proposed solutions in front of every audience鈥攏ot just those flooded with Black faces. Without it, Trump can win.
How a Small North Carolina Community Is Pushing Back on Pollution
A new group of allies is fighting a proposed asphalt plant that threatens their health and their homes.
Meet the Black Musician Unraveling Generations of Hate
By addressing prejudices head-on with an open mind, blues musician Daryl Davis has succeeded in convincing over 200 KKK members and other White supremacists to disavow their allegiances.
John Lewis and C.T. Vivian Belonged to a Long Tradition of Religious Leaders in the Movement for Civil Rights
That both men were people of the cloth is no coincidence.
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.
As Black Immigrants, This Movement for Equality Is Ours, Too
A lot of Black immigrants like me have come to see that for our children to live the better lives we envisioned in this country, we need to be all-in against racism鈥攏o matter where or whom it strikes.
What Everyone Should Know About Reconstruction
During the period after the Civil War, African Americans gained political power yet faced the backlash of White supremacy. Understanding Reconstruction is also essential for exploring Black power, resilience, and excellence.
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.
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.
Dismantling John C. Calhoun鈥檚 Racist Legacy
Despite being an avid proponent of slavery, the historical figure has been quite prominent in American society鈥攁nd not just in the South.
Truth-Telling Leads to Racial Healing, Studies of Other Countries Show
Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.
The Confederate Flag Represents Sexual Violence
To claim the flag represents Southern pride is an egregious whitewashing of history.
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.
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.
The Movement for Black Lives Has Always Been Spiritual
When the Rev. Al Sharpton implored White America to 鈥済et your knee off our necks鈥� at the memorial of George Floyd, his words were carried by news outlets across the globe.
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.
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�
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.
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.
Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal
Along with community care, accountability, and the disruption of oppressive systems.
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