People Power

How to Protest Neo-Nazis Without Adding to the Violence
by Laurie Marhoefer
Aug 29, 2017
Ways to fight white supremacists without helping their cause.
5 Ways You Can Help Black Moms Take Back Breastfeeding
by Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
Aug 25, 2017
Insufficient support and stigma make Black women the least likely to breastfeed of any group.
“This Is Our Land”: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
by Jenni Monet
Aug 24, 2017
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
Inside the ACLU: Defending White Supremacists as a Black Attorney
by Abre’ Conner
Aug 24, 2017
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I’m conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
There’s a Myth That White People Are Safer Among Other Whites
by Mike Males
Aug 21, 2017
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
I Need to Start With the Racist Attitudes in Me
by Colin Beavan
Aug 18, 2017
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
by Bill McKibben
Aug 18, 2017
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy
by Christopher Petrella, Justin Gomer
Aug 17, 2017
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It’s terribly, terrifyingly normal.
In Truth and Reconciliation, First Things First—The Truth 
by David Ragland, Cori Bush, Melinda Salazar
Aug 16, 2017
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People
by Chris Winters
Aug 16, 2017
We’ve been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy
by Peter J. Hammer
Aug 13, 2017
Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the “Unite the Right” protests.
Dear Fellow Lefties: Know Who the Real Enemy Is
by Kelly Hayes
Aug 13, 2017
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s trying to kill us.
Goodbye, Small Farmer? Investors Could Soon Own Most of American Farmland
by Katy Keiffer
Aug 08, 2017
Today, 30 percent of American farmland is owned by non-operators who lease it out to farmers. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel” Could Have Gone Further
by Mark Rahner
Aug 04, 2017
Let’s face it. The people who really need to see this film are never going to go near it.
10 Examples That Prove White Privilege Exists in Every Aspect Imaginable
by Jon Greenberg
Jul 24, 2017
Lessons people of color have taught me that changed my life—and could change yours too.