A new report, A Dream in Our Name, by Liberation Ventures examines how changing anti-Black narratives and reducing the racial wealth gap are central to the project of reparations.
Before the freeways came in, Bronzeville, on Milwaukee鈥檚 North Side, was a vibrant neighborhood known for its restaurants, bars, and jazz scene. The area had been home to successive waves
鈥淚magining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,鈥 says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.
Author Melissa Hope Ditmore suggests that current political attention on human trafficking is performative rather than practical. In her new book, she makes the case for enforcing and expanding labor laws.
Even after leaving a domestic violence situation, survivors are often saddled with mountains of debt incurred by their abusers. Can a new California law offer protections?
Past generations harnessed state power to penalize educators who dared to teach about injustice. Many of today鈥檚 anti-anti-racists rehearse the same old rhetoric for similar ends.
Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists.
Despite the region's anti-Black past (and present), there is rich Black history being preserved amid the Columbia River Gorge and the Wallowa Mountains.
Members of the Black Girl Brown Girl Collective in South Phoenix are building a community of women artists of color surviving in a white male supremacist world.