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.
Among the familiar sea of Israeli flags at the Jerusalem Day Flag March last month, another symbol caught my eye: a light-blue…
Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: āThey sleep, then creep, then leap.ā Last summer I pulled a lot of grass…
Whenever I turn back to the history of Jim Crow, my teeth clench with rage. What enrages me is not only the…
The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World Cup is the impressive amnesia of everyone involved, including the international…
The opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup represent an ideological milestone for international sports. For the first time, forty-eight nations…
Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of…
Original essay, Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund, by Leivick Hodes. Translation and commentary by Madeleine Cohen. INTRODUCTION Polish…
South Africans commemorated two significant events in May: Africa Day and Workersā Day. These moments normally evoke political reflection on the importance…
āEveryone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.ā Those were the words of…
More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived in North America to establish a settlement, and more than…
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