A few months after temporarily shutting down 13 Chase branches, Seattle climate activists were at it again with a tar sands petition.
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it’s just the first step.
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It’s terribly, terrifyingly normal.
Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity—and crumbled.
We’ve been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Programs provide easier access to fresh, healthful foods to low-income neighbors.
10 ways to get your mind off this White House.
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.
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.
Isn’t it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
Where fascism aims to instill fear, joy is the perfect resistance.
In the 1930s, a million Mexican people were forced out of the United States across the border into Mexico. It wasn’t called deportation then—euphemistically it was referred to as repatriation.
On the 52nd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, 31 states with histories of racial discrimination no longer have federal oversight of their voting process.
Data show more Black men are killed at higher rates than women, but police-misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie says that doesn’t tell the whole story.
An online platform might be just the thing to spread around our grassroots genius.
“In our country there are two things that move policy. One is money. The other is the power of people.”
Today, 30 percent of American farmland is owned by non-operators who lease it out to farmers. Here’s why that’s a problem.
A visit to the Possibility Alliance reminded me also that the one constant of life is change.
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