A conversation with Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson
Civil Rights in America
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Appalling Racial Legacy
The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act has cemented President Trump’s legacy in erasing civil rights and equal opportunity.
Posted inTAP
Turning Civil Rights Inside Out
The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
A Black Man’s Death at the Hands of Police Is Going Unacknowledged
Stephenson King Jr. was shot and killed by a Boston police officer last month. It hasn’t yet made national headlines.
Posted inPolitics
Congressional Black Caucus to Support Spying Powers Used on BLM Activists
The Congressional Black Caucus will support the clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702, a warrantless surveillance authority that has been used to spy on African Americans.
Posted inTAP
Mass Protest: Where Are the Kids?
The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What the Possibility of War Is Like for an Iranian-American
The convergence of the two authoritarian republics is unmistakable.
Posted inLaw and Justice
ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent
The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison routinely sexually assaulted immigrants.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Attacking Black Journalists Is an American Tradition
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort reflect an American legacy of targeting the Black press.
