āIn life, thereās the beginning and the end,ā John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power…
Many have attempted to claim that `things are better here’ for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe’s colonial past and its own racist present
The Labour manifesto elevates the electoral conversation beyond Corbyn the individual, to the set of priorities, values and interests that his election as leader represented
Is America Now Ready to Embrace It?
For many on the left, getting rid of Trump is insufficient. Victory must be accompanied by fundamental political change
The right denigrates equal rights campaigns as āgrievancesā while cornering the market in victimhood
The rise of the alt-right is no coincidence. For millions of Americans, race is all they have
The United States needs new gun laws. But first it needs to shed the myths that sustain its reliance on weapons
Gun deaths ā intentional, accidental and self-inflicted ā dwarf those related to terror. The talk is of secure borders but within the US many live in a state of fear
To watch Trump take the oath was to bear witness to democracyās fragility
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