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Black Lives Matter
September 21, 2016
Clio Chang
Police shootings of black men are major news again—just in time for the election.
September 20, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
What it means to look like a “bad dude.”
September 15, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
“Something is wrong with this country.”
September 6, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Black Lives Matter takes it from the streets to the runways—London’s airport runways, that is.
August 8, 2016
Jesse McCarthy
Visible Men
Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir reckons with racial injustice, and tells the story of his political education.
August 4, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The “Blue Lives Matter” movement just gained its first victory in a Louisiana hate crime bill.
August 2, 2016
Steven Cohen
Bill Bratton’s gone. What’s next for police reform activists?
August 1, 2016
Steven Cohen
Black Lives Matter has gone beyond reforming the police.
July 18, 2016
Steven Cohen
How long can Hillary Clinton walk the tight rope of racial justice politics?
July 18, 2016
Steven Cohen
Freddie Gray broke his own neck.
July 15, 2016
David Dayen
Black Lives Matter Has Come a Long Way Since Heckling Bernie Sanders
And some activists at Netroots Nations are taking credit for his success.
July 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
The man who was wrongfully accused of being a “suspect” in the sniper attacks in Dallas has been released.
July 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Is Minnesota the “Jim Crow North”?
July 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
A busted headlight.
May 23, 2016
Steven Cohen
Baltimore offers another reminder of how slanted the scales of justice are in cases of police killings.
April 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Burden of Bill Clinton’s Baggage
Why does he keep dragging Hillary Clinton back to the 1990s? It's more political than psychological.
April 7, 2016
Clio Chang
Bill Clinton is stuck in the 90s.
March 16, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
The Black Lives Matter movement scored a big electoral win in Chicago.
March 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
Hillary Clinton’s History Problem
As recent comments showed, Clinton tends to downplay the role of radical activism in fomenting social change.
March 11, 2016
Steven Cohen
Today’s Donald Trump rally in St. Louis is a sign of the apocalypse to come.

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