Affirmative action momentarily pulls the blinders on a system of racialized capitalism

The Colombian government’s dark history of murdering dissidents should give us pause before celebrating peace

In Jamaica, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his answer to reparations loud and clear: “move on,” accompanied by funds to build a prison

In claiming Kim Davis as their Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr., the right is engaging in violent historical revisionism.

Black August, a month of political prisoner activism and commemoration, can help remind us of the nation’s exponentially expanding racist prison system

Channeling all of our outrage at Trump’s rhetorical racism overlooks the truly racist violence being unleashed on the undocumented every day

Yes, no one is dead in McKinney. But the timeline, the monster-like “list,” insists that someone else’s name will be etched soon

The Black Lives Matter movement has resonated deeply with black activists and organizers in Colombia

What Officer Slager felt threatened by — that act of running away — is the historic consequence of centuries of white supremacy

The SAE anthem is the ugly veneer of the kind of institutional racism that led to the fact that over the past two years, the black residents of Ferguson accounted for 85% of all traffic stops