"There is no excuse for allowing ICE to come into our city, to shoot seven bullets into cars where there are children. It is just an outrage. I truly have no words for just how enraging everything that transpired last night was," says candidate for Congress in New York City.
What happens when the institution responsible for investigating harm is the same institution worried about its reputation, donors, fraternity relationships, and legal liability? Silence protects power. Accountability means confronting it.
"What I can do as a man is listen, believe women, support survivors and refuse to participate in the attitudes and behavior that make sexual violence easier to dismiss or excuse."
Recent polling shows more than two-thirds of Americans say that immigrants who are pregnant, nursing or have recently given birth should generally not be held in immigration detention.
This story brings insight into the lives of the millions of women and men who leave before dawn to keep entire cities running by cleaning, building, cooking, caring. But suddenly some want them seen them as criminals.
The Cycle Must Cease
D.L. Lang
America’s bloodlust has not changed in 250 years.
War and terror are two sides of the same coin.
It doesn’t matter how...
He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense and Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work as well as two collections of poetry.
Around My Neck
By Kathy Powers
I carry my safety
Around my neck.
I carry our safeties
Around my neck.
Around my neck
So I don’t lose them
When I go out
To...