The equality Nina Simone demanded in song is still denied Black communities in Jackson, neglected for decades and at the mercy of a failed water system.
Editorial
Afghan starvation — made in the USA
The Biden administration could relieve famine by returning the $9.5 billion of the country’s money frozen in U.S. financial institutions.
Go all the way with student debt relief
Biden’s reprieve was a good start — yet over half of borrowers, most of them Black, still owe 95% of their original loans!
The rich getting richer off workers and the poor: Something has to give
“As the crisis and its source come into sharp focus, so does the solution.”
Monkeypox: Stand Up, Fight Back, Demand Global Solutions!
Viruses do not stop at borders, and monkeypox is a global health emergency.
End the carnage at the border
No more deaths! Stop racist Border Patrol terror!
End the pressure to pray
Student-athletes have enough pressure on them without the Supreme Court adding to it. No one should have to pray to play.
Colonialism’s poison-pill exit from India
The religious, patriarchal and ethnic violence unleashed by Britain’s partition of India 75 years ago, on August 15, 1947, lives on today.
End white supremacy and the system that breeds it
It’s up to freedom-minded people to stand in solidarity with one another against murderous bigots coming out from under their rocks.
Stop the persecution of climate activists as terrorists
The U.S. is desperate to scare off bold activists, who are now called upon to defend each other in the courts and in the streets.