Elections2020 – Page 83 – People's World

Is Black Lives Matter a tipping point on class inequality?

August 4, 2020 By Tim Libretti

On what basis do we assign different values to people’s lives?

Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end

August 4, 2020 By Regina Garcia Cano And Michael Casey

The nation faces the potential of being plunged into the greatest homelessness crisis in history with the federal government this far poised to do nothing about it.

Colorado takes a giant step toward police reform

August 3, 2020 By John Bachtell

The measure is part of a broad police accountability and reform legislation restricting the use of force by officers and banning chokeholds, signed into law by Governor Jared Polis (D) on June 19.

In an age of masks, the mask is off

August 3, 2020 By Forbes West

The mask of humanity, justice, rationality, and peace is being torn off the collective face of the American government and politics and replaced with the sneer of the reality television host and the dead eyes of...

Black women in the forefront of the political struggle

August 3, 2020 By Kat Stafford And Claire Galofaro

Now Black women are mobilized and demanding an overdue return on their investment. Over the last several years and across America, Black women ran and won elections in historic numbers, from Congress to county school boards.