racism
22-year-old Amir Locke gunned down in latest Minneapolis police murder
February 7, 2022As captured on body cams, police shot Locke three times within nine seconds of entry into the relative’s apartment he was visiting.
Read moreMichigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society
February 1, 2022In a stage of capitalism where outsourcing and deindustrialization have devastated Michigan's manufacturing economy, small towns across the state have come to rely on a racist system of mass incarceration for their economic livelihood.
Read moreNot content with purging Black voters, Georgia Republicans go after schools, too
February 1, 2022The Republicans’ weapon—as in Florida, Virginia, and elsewhere—is to campaign against “Critical Race Theory” and any other discussions of race that might rile their white supremacist base.
Read moreThe LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas
January 21, 2022The basic LandBack issue is simple: “Give us the land back.” For many Indigenous peoples, getting the land back is first one of economics, as the stronger an Indigenous nation is economically, the stronger it is...
Read moreMakeshift noose and confederate flags told her this was something different
January 6, 2022Not even during the Civil War was a confederate flag paraded inside the U.S. Capitol.
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