activism

Comic: Black activists are not your mules

How nonprofits gaslight you into the same self-sacrificing work as capitalist corporations

Calling Cards: Revolution means building towards a national movement of uncompromising politics

The Obamas keep attacking “cancel culture” because they are scared of being held accountable

‘How We Fight White Supremacy’ honors the many ways Black folks resist

Black liberation requires making room for uncomfortable manifestations of mental illness

Black man finessed his way into the presidency of a neo-Nazi group, now vows to destroy it

Meet Ashton P. Woods, the millennial Black Lives Matter activist running for Houston City Council-At Large

Wear Your Voice campaign aims to correct how the body positivity movement fails women of color

Turning the fight to save the environment into a fight for racial justice

Exposing children to examples of protest plants the seeds for them to fight for justice

New report details China’s drastic measures to silence opposition and activists

British trans performance artist takes trauma from burger assault and turns it into a call to action with ‘Burgerz’

In response to Trump administration’s memo define gender to exclude transgender people, organizers, activists say we #WontBeErased

Marches in NY, D.C. call for emphasis on the rights of Black women to overturn status quo

The audacity of Aretha Franklin—a voice for Black liberation

Largest for-profit prison company in Florida threatens to sue Dream Defenders for anti-ICE protests

Saying “I am not my ancestors” blatantly disrespects how they lived and died for us

Elbert Howard, one of the Black Panther Party founders, dies at 80

Oakland mourns after 18-year-old Nia Wilson is killed on BART subway station by alleged white supremacist

Remains of 95 Black “convict lease laborers” who were basically post-Civil War slaves found in Texas

Poet Simone John talks her book ‘Testify’ and Sandra Bland’s legacy on the anniversary of her death in AAIHS interview

Calls to #AbolishICE are counterproductive unless they are also a call to #AbolishPolice

Meet the Black immigrant woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest I.C.E.

Time explores the history of a Nazi concentration camp symbol that was repurposed for Pride

South African revolutionary leader Winnie Mandela dies at 81

After theater buyouts for kids to see ‘Black Panther,’ group organizes one for Black girls to see ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

An evening with Angela Davis inspired me to advocate for prison abolition for Black girls

Powerful women in Hollywood come together to release multi-faceted anti-harassment plan

Colin Kaepernick files grievance claim against the NFL

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