Black History Month 2025 is taking place in the midst of a vicious campaign by the Trump administration to incite hatred against African Americans and other people of color. From colonial times until the present, the attacks on the working class as a whole have always started as attacks on Black workers.
The Laken Riley Act criminalizes immigrant communities, and it's disheartening to see that it passed with bipartisan support from lawmakers who claim to serve marginalized communities, writes a resident of California's Central Valley.
Gregory Hodge gives a hopeful speech at a MLK Day celebration about the challenges of this critical moment, and asking each of us how we will measure up.
During a Martin Luther King Day rally in Washington, DC, Jan. 20, Rev. Al Sharpton called for targeted boycotts of companies that abandon DEI initiatives.
San Francisco, CA. On February 11, homeless families and their allies rallied and marched to San Francisco City Hall, demanding more affordable housing and...
While the Trump/Musk attack on federal agencies is broad-based and will impact people in all walks of life, poor and unhoused communities – disproportionately people of color – are being specially targeted.
Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, threatened to target Chicago the moment Trump took office and they are making good on that promise. What they didn’t expect was how Chicagoans are unwaveringly dedicated to protect their undocumented neighbors.
Trump and Republicans in Congress showed they would happily cut things like Meals on Wheels, housing assistance, and food for mothers and young children, to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
The privatization drive means dismantling public schools. Money is shifted out of the public school system into exclusionary, discriminatory private school systems. And homeless kids and families are the first to be hit.
