Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute. “Fear turns Black politics on its head.” – Glen Ford As Black Agenda Report contributor Anthony Rogers-Wright recently reported, there is […]
Aline Zunzunegui, Inequality.org. The people of Mexico demanded that the people’s game be returned to them. The World Cup came home. For weeks, Mexico stood at the center of the world, carried there by the most beautiful and passionate game on earth. Millions of Mexicans took to the streets, filled public squares, improvised screens, and celebrated […]
Beyond the Feminism-or-Family Dichotomy The relationship between feminism, the family, and capitalism has become one of the most contentious theoretical and political questions of recent decades. In many societies—semi-peripheral ones in particular—rapid social change, rising female educational attainment, women’s growing presence in public life, and shifting family patterns have raised new questions about the future [...]
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arizona’s rarest orchid, when not in bloom, resembles a blade of grass. It vanishes easily in the lush greenery of the Canelo Hills Cienega Preserve—even to the eyes of the botanists who plant it. On a mild April morning, after […]
Hundreds of thousands of young protesters assembled in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar every day to demand the resignation of the education minister and accountability from the Modi government.
From Queen Nanny and Ida B. Wells to Martin Luther King Jr. and Black Lives Matter, liberation has always required the organized masses. Melina Abdullah La Progressive For the last week, Black Lives Matter Grassroots organizers met and convened in Los Angeles for our 13th birthday. Black Lives Matter was birthed in its grassroots form on July […]