Reports analysis, vision & strategy bearing on racism from around the world and includes content relating to discrimination and violence against minorities, institutional racism in organisations and entire nations, and the movements involved in fighting against racism.
I danced among a sea of my people at a nightclub in Center City, Philadelphia, to celebrate Haitian Independence Day. Earlier, while…
It is an arresting image: On the Fourth of July, a lone, young Black woman sits on a train filled with White…
As the country and this administration launched its America 250 and Freedom 250 āCelebrationsā, what we experienced in the nationās capitol and…
There has been something almost surreal in President Donald Trumpās efforts to both whitewash US history as well as make 4 July…
Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking clarity.…
āThey are dead. The tank is next to me. Itās moving.ā āIs it very close?ā āVery, very. Will you come and get…
Major anniversaries of the Declaration of Independence have a way of coming at inconvenient times. When the bicentennial took place, the United…
Israelās supporters have gone apoplectic over a short post on X from the journalist Mehdi Hasan, highlighting Israelās peculiar marriage laws. Hasan…
On July 4, 2026, the United States of America turns 250 years old. Should the Left celebrate the 250thĀ anniversary of the founding…
On June 25, the Supreme Court drastically expanded the Trump administrationās ability to shape the nationās immigration system. In two separate 6-3…
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