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Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
23 hours ago

I saw the backlash coming': civil rights activist Kimberle Crenshaw on America and race

Federal actions have targeted critical race theory and DEI initiatives, erasing decades of Kimberle Crenshaw's work on intersectionality and systemic racism.
Social justice
fromAxios
18 hours ago

Multiracial Americans are surging. But data erases them

The multiracial population in the U.S. grew significantly from 2010 to 2020, with implications for how race is measured and understood.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 day ago

Anti-trans bathroom bills are the New Jim Crow - LGBTQ Nation

Anti-transgender legislation is reshaping public restroom access, drawing parallels to historical segregation and impacting various gender identities.
US politics
fromAxios
1 day ago

ICE detention center expansion sparks national protest

Demonstrators oppose immigration enforcement and demand transparency and community consent for detention plans amid ICE's expansion efforts.
Education
fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

U.S. Department of Education reopens investigation into LAUSD's Black student achievement program

Federal education officials are investigating LAUSD's Black Student Achievement Plan for potential race-based discrimination after a complaint from a conservative watchdog group.
#discrimination
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago
SF LGBT

Black trans woman says gay bar tried kicking her out in act of discrimination: "Literally shaking" - LGBTQ Nation

A Black transgender woman experienced discrimination at a Detroit gay bar, claiming hostility from staff and a lack of support from management.
SF LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago

Black trans woman says gay bar tried kicking her out in act of discrimination: "Literally shaking" - LGBTQ Nation

A Black transgender woman experienced discrimination at a Detroit gay bar, claiming hostility from staff and a lack of support from management.
#trump
Washington DC
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago

Trump Shades MLK Jr.'s Crowd Size: I Actually Had More People'

Trump compared crowd sizes of his July 4th event to MLK's speech, claiming similar attendance despite estimates showing otherwise.
Washington DC
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago

Trump Shades MLK Jr.'s Crowd Size: I Actually Had More People'

Trump compared crowd sizes of his July 4th event to MLK's speech, claiming similar attendance despite estimates showing otherwise.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

RFK Jr. Flails as Senator Interrogates Him for Saying Black Kids Need To Be Reparented'

Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos, which are known to induce violence. Those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens.
Public health
NYC music
fromFuncheap
3 days ago

"Black Family Day" 2026 Fair at UC Davis Quad

Black Family Day celebrates Black excellence and community with food, performances, and activities on May 23rd, 2026 at UC Davis Quad.
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

These dramatic images of AOC and RFK arguing went viral. What were they talking about? - LGBTQ Nation

Oh, I mean, listen, we're getting screwed. People are getting screwed. These insurance companies... In fact, the Department of Justice has a criminal case open on United Healthcare for stealing money from Medicare.
Healthcare
#southern-poverty-law-center
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges

The Southern Poverty Law Center faces federal fraud charges for allegedly misusing funds intended to combat extremism.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
13 hours ago

Joy Reid Goes Off On Trump DOJ Over Absolutely Insane' SPLC Indictment

The indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center by Trump's Justice Department is criticized as politically motivated and unfounded.
History
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

Some African elites benefited from the slave trade, complicating the narrative of reparations in the context of historical injustices.
Arts
fromTruthout
6 days ago

Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience

The Warehouse exhibition transforms understanding of mass incarceration through visual storytelling, making complex issues accessible to a wider audience.
#civil-rights
Social justice
fromABC7 Chicago
1 day ago

Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center's indictment and prepare for legal fights

Civil rights leaders are mobilizing to support the Southern Poverty Law Center amid heightened legal scrutiny from the Trump administration.
fromAxios
1 month ago
US news

Civil rights group documents 70 alleged "modern-day lynchings" across 7 Southern states

Social justice
fromABC7 Chicago
1 day ago

Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center's indictment and prepare for legal fights

Civil rights leaders are mobilizing to support the Southern Poverty Law Center amid heightened legal scrutiny from the Trump administration.
fromAxios
1 month ago
US news

Civil rights group documents 70 alleged "modern-day lynchings" across 7 Southern states

Law
fromABA Journal
3 weeks ago

Millions of Americans continue to lack meaningful access to justice. What can be done about it?

Millions of Americans face legal challenges without access to affordable legal assistance, highlighting a significant justice gap.
#racism
Social justice
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

Black and ethnic minority staff facing appalling' levels of racism in the workplace

Racism and unfair treatment of black and ethnic minority workers in Britain are increasing, necessitating urgent action from employers.
Social justice
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

Black and ethnic minority staff facing appalling' levels of racism in the workplace

Racism and unfair treatment of black and ethnic minority workers in Britain are increasing, necessitating urgent action from employers.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago

Dems pass "profound" law to protect trans kids who change their names - LGBTQ Nation

Colorado's new law protects the privacy of trans children seeking name changes, ensuring their dignity and safety.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found

Living in a constrained environment reflects the ongoing impact of historical injustices and the struggle for dignity and self-worth.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Reparations take many forms': what the UN's landmark vote on enslavement means for restorative justice

The United Nations voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations as a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.
Social justice
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Tonika Lewis Johnson: Segregation and How to Disrupt It

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.
Arts
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers report

Black children in England and Wales are disproportionately strip-searched by police compared to white children, highlighting severe racial disparities.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Why are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips

Addressing inequality requires questioning the overrepresentation of straight white American men in power rather than focusing solely on the underrepresentation of marginalized groups.
US Elections
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

61 Years After Bloody Sunday, We Are Entering a New Era of Voter Suppression

2026 faces voting rights threats through postal service changes and the SAVE America Act, which would require citizenship documents to register, potentially disenfranchising millions of Americans.
#jesse-jackson
#black-history-month
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

White people are increasingly protesting oppression. The interest convergence theory explains why. - LGBTQ Nation

An armed, masked ICE officer in Minneapolis fatally shot Renee Nicole Good at point-blank range as she moved her car away from an ICE operation.
Education
fromTruthout
1 month ago

We Must Defend Black History - It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack

Teachers must transform curricula to eliminate biases and systems of domination while protecting vulnerable students, particularly Black students and students of color, from contemporary educational injustices.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Civil rights leaders say the racial progress Jesse Jackson fought for is under threat

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon who transformed Black political power through groundbreaking 1980s presidential campaigns, died at 84, leaving a legacy of expanding political possibilities for Black Americans and people of color.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Black History Month was never given' to Black people, thus, it can never be taken from us

If you know anything about the basic origins of Black History Month then you know that we weren't given' anything. The question of who owns and authorizes Black History Month holds particular relevance now, in its centennial year, and at a time when efforts to celebrate, preserve, and acknowledge Black people's past in this country are under attack.
History
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Trump Administration Can't Kill Black History Month

She remembers walking with her big brothers down a sidewalk fractured by the roots of old oak trees while children played hopscotch on the playground. She remembers going outside and clapping erasers together so that plumes of chalk dust rose above her head. And she remembers being told that she was attending a school that many white parents had taken their children out of just a few years earlier because they didn't want them sitting in class with Negroes.
History
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Trump's Backlash to Black History

The Trump administration is actively removing or whitewashing references to slavery and Black history, prompting legal rebukes and calls for truthful historical representation.
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Trump Admin Doesn't Want Us to Call the Klansman Who Murdered Medgar Evers a Racist

On Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that several officials, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said NPS told them to remove visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and edit out details about Beckwith. Among the details reportedly flagged for removal: that Evers was found lying in a pool of blood after he was shot. The brochures referred to Beckwith as "a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens' Council."
History
#black-history
fromAxios
2 months ago
US politics

America's 250th anniversary collides with a renewed fight over Black history

fromAxios
2 months ago
US politics

America's 250th anniversary collides with a renewed fight over Black history

Social justice
fromLEVEL Man
1 month ago

The Common Thread of 50 Black Lives Lost

Legal systems in America have systematically protected white perpetrators who killed Black people from slavery through the present day, creating a pattern of sanctioned violence and impunity.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley

Expansion of racially targeted, arbitrary state violence into broader populations exemplifies an imperial boomerang, where colonial tactics return domestically and risk fascist normalization.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Minneapolis Uprising

Confrontations between ICE agents and organized local protectors combine brutal physical clashes with rehearsed, coordinated community defense tactics and encrypted communication.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Kluth: Race is the elephant in the room of US foreign policy

White genocide' Carl is a right-wing firebrand who played a minor role in the first Trump administration and has more recently gained, depending on your vantage, kudos or notoriety for his theory that Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, as his book's subtitle puts it. He believes, for example, that a White genocide is underway and endorses the Great Replacement Theory (according to which elites in America and Europe are intentionally encouraging immigration to replace indigenous whites).
US politics
Social justice
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Black History Month Is Radical Now

America elevates Founding figures to faultless heroes despite their roles as enslavers; efforts to erase those truths distort national memory.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 months ago

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn't Begin in Europe

White supremacist state power and violence manifest as anti-Black fascism, linking prison abolition, historical uprisings like Attica, and enduring systemic bodily and social harm.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This

Superficial reforms like body cameras and uniforms fail to challenge systemic state violence and instead legitimize and enable continued expansion and funding of ICE and policing.
fromTruthout
2 months ago

"Reforms" Didn't End Police Violence in 2020 and They Won't End ICE Violence Now

Yet while "Abolish ICE" serves as a unifying chant in the streets, Democrats are once again seeking to temper and co-opt people's demands into a narrow version of reform. The demands outlined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could not be more toothless: requiring ICE agents to unmask, wear body cameras, and to follow a code of conduct modeled on other law enforcement agencies.
US politics
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

This Black History Month, the leaders of the past can teach real resistance | Eric Morrison-Smith

Collective, grassroots organizing and leadership development are necessary to build community and prevent deepening poverty, violence, and repression.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

In the Trump Era, Celebrating Black History Month Feels Radical Again

Corporate brands significantly reduced Black History Month marketing and social media engagement in 2025 compared to their performative displays following George Floyd's 2020 murder, reflecting broader retreat from racial equity commitments.
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