Reports analysis, vision & strategy bearing on culture, on race, on community and includes content relating to the impact of culture, race and community on society, and on racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, national, and other community interrelations; it can also include content about racism, repression and violation of civil and human rights.
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded venue or a vehicle plows into pedestrians in Berlin, New York or London, the…
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men ā as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies…
The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise and revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the U.S.…
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the āArabā side of a…
The mass popular opposition to ICE āsurgesā led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: Whatās next? Jan. 5…
Zionism has a chequered history: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, wars without end, apartheid, land theft and now, genocide. Less well known…
During the recent World Cup, the clash between national teams quickly escalated into an international campaign against Argentina. A diverse range of…
Last Sunday, Spain lifted the World Cup trophy at MetLife Stadium, closing out six weeks that revealed two very different North Americas.…
Right now, in Santa Cruz, California, police officers are going without federally funded bulletproof vests. In Beaverton, Oregon, paramedics are losing the ambulances they were…
No American city has been as central to this decadeās struggles for social justice as Minneapolis. George Floydās murder by Minneapolis police…
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