In an exceptional memoir, one of the greatest actresses in American film deconstructs her craft and bears witness to history.
Civil Rights in America
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GOP vs. the Right to Assemble (GOP Assemblings Exempted)
Today on TAP: The current push to criminalize demonstrations
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How We Got to a Just Verdict
On the indispensability of smart, militant movements
Posted inLaw and Justice
In Small Black Southern Towns, the Cops Remain Undaunted
Even those governed by Black elected officials have been reluctant to cut the force and increase social services.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Florida Is Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation
Tear down a Confederate flag in Florida and a protester could be headed to prison. It’s all part of the same national movement to silence dissent in the wake of the George Floyd uprising.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
North Carolina Botched an Emergency Re-entry Program for Returning Citizens
A re-entry program that quarantined people with possible COVID-19 exposure endangered their lives and reproduced the prison conditions they left behind.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Shake Hands
An iconic photograph captured the Washington meeting of these two titans as the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Physical Mail Could Be Eliminated at Federal Prisons
A pilot program initiated under Trump converts mail to electronic scans. Biden hasn’t reversed it, and critics call it abusive and harmful to inmates and families.
Posted inPolitics
Which Direction Now, White Folks?
Anti-racism activist Tim Wise surveys America’s shredded racial canvas. A Prospect interview.
