Desperation in Chicago and other cities while Trump talks estate tax
During the Great Depression, unemployment hovered around 20 percent. Many neighborhoods now face levels twice that, six years into the supposed recovery.
“Measures of despair”: Chicago desperate for action on violence and poverty
A poll just released depicts a city that is losing faith in its basic public institutions, from the police to the mayor's office.
Straight outta everywhere: Learning to listen in the "racial conversation"
The white dominant culture is more interested in critiquing the rap music rather than critiquing the conditions to which the music bears witness.
Chattanooga deaths being called an act of domestic terrorism
Why is a mass murderer who kills in the name of white supremacy not considered a terrorist but a killer who, currently, has no known ideological motive is?
Only tackling the root causes can end the cycle of violence
Only a sharp turn to peace and non-violence stands a ghost's chance of extricating humankind from this awful and seemingly intractable situation.
How long before that arc bends towards justice?
Almost 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and asked "How long?" His words ring as true today as ever.
Ray Rice and his enablers: why men must speak out
Think about it: before Goodell as well as Ravens coach Jim Harbaugh and Ravens officials saw this new tape, what did they think had transpired on that elevator?
Ending violence must be our passion
We can barely turn in any direction without encountering violence of one kind or another. It is a pervasive presence in our lives and the lives of people worldwide.
Upon the fire of war, Netanyahu's government pours gasoline
War is a human disaster: Not only due to the victims, but also because it brings in plain view many evil and ugly phenomena: violence, racism, nationalist zeal.
Defeating the cycle of death in Israel and Palestine
Can working class internationalism break down the walls of reactionary nationalism and prejudice which serve as chains holding both peoples down?
