Access to healthcare for women and transgender folks continues to come under fire in the United States in the name of religious freedom.
By: Imani J. Jackson To many millennialsā chagrin and not of our own doing, American capitalism continues to operate despite its negative impact on Black and Brown communities. Confronted with this economic system and sustained government violence against Black and Brown people, activists are increasingly combining traditional civil rights tactics, like protests and economic boycotts, […]
Congressional Republicans have closed a year-long investigation into the events that resulted in tens of thousands in being exposed to lead in their water supply. But the investigation failed to result in any new information that wasn’t already presented in the high profile hearings that found both the local government and the EPA responsible.
On Sunday night, FBI Director James Comey released a letter to lawmakers that the FBI had reached the same conclusion regarding Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server: that no new evidence of mishandling classified information was found and that the FBI does not recommend charges against Clinton.
Regardless of where you are in your political education, Ava DuVernayās documentary The 13th was pretty well done. Weaving the staggering numbers of rising incarceration rates with the insights of prominent activists, journalists, and academics coupled with a soundtrack that highlights the connectedness of mass incarceration to Black realities, it is a signature piece of […]
Four-hundred people were shot in Chicago within the span of 31 days. Ninety of them died. Multiple outlets, including The Washington Post and CNN, are calling August the deadliest month the city has experienced in two decades. Some news reports implicated widespread gang violence within the city for the drastic uptick in crime, while others […]
Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, will be let off early after serving only half of his six month sentence. This case highlights the incredibly problematic way the criminal justice system deals with those who commit and are convicted of sexual assault. Only focusingĀ onĀ retribution (defined as “length […]
Who is allowed to have a gun in the United States? After the House of Representativesā problematic proposed gun control measures and the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week, the answers are becoming clear: people of color are not allowed the right to bear arms.
Detroit Public Schools have been in an uncomfortable financial situation for a few years now. Teachers have had to take pay cuts in various forms and DPS is in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. The current financial strain may get even more serious in less than a month when it could potentially run […]
President Obama has proposed a budget for 2017, which removes a $10 million annual grant that goes towards funding āabstinence-onlyā sexual education classes in public schools. By getting rid of this money, Obama ends the financial incentive for states to continue to teach this one-sided sexual education program.
This presidential election season has consistently brought up the conversation of race, as it should, and right now, the conversation has turned into a debate, thanks to the award-winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou.
The Carter G. Woodson Library in Chicago’s Washington Heights neighborhood is rooted in history. It was named after the “Father of Black History” and holds the largest collection of black literature in the entire Midwest. It notably contains theĀ Vivian G. Harsh Collection, named after Chicagoās first black librarian, which features slave and genealogy records and […]
