When Carter G. Woodson introduced African American History Month in 1926, as Negro History Week, it soon became clear that American history without African American history was ...
Filmmaker Ray Santisteban’s new documentary, the First Rainbow Coalition, tackles the question of what it takes to build trust and solidarity between oppressed groups in a country.
On New Year's Day, a Kansas City homeless man found his friend frozen to death in a shed where they slept at night. “l picked him up and he was frozen." A friend of the two men ...
We’re cousins … we care, we listen, we share, we open our hearts to those who need. We are blessed!” said Street MOMs, a group in Wheeling, West Virginia, “dedicated to serving ...
As l walk through the camps with a huge jacket, frosty temps in the air. . . It takes me back to a time when l was young and homeless. I look at what I’m fighting now and what my ...
At the invitation of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Sec-Treasurer Christiana Wagner, I accompanied a 17-member congressional delegation to visit the refugee camp in the dangerous ...
The year 2019 brought children in cages, families separated, and thousands locked in detention centers. The gates were shut, supposedly because there’s “no room at the inn.” Now ...
On this page are drawings from children awaiting asylum at the U.S. border in Matamoros, Mexico. They drew their experiences as part of an art project by Dr. Belinda Arriaga, an ...
Andrew Yang wasn’t in the most recent Democratic debate, but he continues to amass a hard core of supporters, many attracted by his position regarding technology eliminating jobs ...
Below are recent quotes from a variety of people, from Twitter posts and other sources, regarding the question of universal health care in America, including their support for ...
As the California Primary on March 3 looms just ahead, Californians find themselves in a fight for their lives. Articles below reflect some of these fights ...
Members of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) at Laney College in Oakland, California, attended the December San Francisco mass meeting of the national Poor People’s Campaign Tour, ...
For over three decades, Exide Technology contaminated their employees and the surrounding areas in Southeast Los Angeles County, while every government agency in place failed ...
The grassroots community group, “Decarcerate Sacramento,” has mobilized the public to oppose jail expansion in Sacramento, calling for the funding of sustainable, community- ...
Members of the Council and my fellow citizens, in the spirit of the ancient Greek forums of old, when men of reason, logic, and a sense of civic duty gathered to bear witness to ...
As the California Primary on March 3 looms just ahead, we find ourselves in a fight for our lives. Articles on these pages reflect some of these fights: from Moms 4 Housing in ...
The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led grassroots organization fighting to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs in the process, endorsed Bernie Sanders for president ...
The stories below are about some of the battles for the Earth; from the youth, to the still suffering children of Flint, to the fighters in Death Alley in Louisiana, to the Amazon ...
On the evening of January 6, 2020, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing ...
Juliana v. United States is not about the government’s failure to act on climate. Instead, these young plaintiffs between the ages of 12 and 23, assert that the U.S. government, ...
On January 14, residents of Flint confronted the County School Board for failure to dispatch needed Special Education funds to the long suffering, poisoned ...
After two major hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Congress approved almost $20 billion in disaster aid. But the Trump administration has refused to send $18 billion of this ...
Editor’s note: Vast numbers of people are participating in the 2020 election campaign to demand change. Here we look at the Bernie Sanders campaign....
We're a group of Amazon employees who believe it’s our responsibility to ensure our business models don’t contribute to the climate crisis. Jeff Bezos and Amazon ...
“So if we are in this situational reality where we’re looking at the predatory . . . ruling class, and we’re talking to them about environment and . . . alternative energy, ...
The US government’s assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and a top Iraqi paramilitary commander in Baghdad was in part calculated to provoke Iran into going to ...
Military spending makes up two-thirds of the US federal budget, and it could soon become three-quarters of the budget. The $1trillion US military budget today is bigger than the ...
The US Justice Department on Dec. 18 announced the launch of “Operation Relentless Pursuit,” which Attorney General William Barr claimed is aimed at “combating violent crime” in ...
The attack on democracy in Benton Harbor, MI shows that the corporate power structure aims to crush anyone who stands in its way. It is a process under way across America. After ...
