Under Eric Adams, the city and the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers. Plaintiffs allege this violates their civil liberties.
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inPolitics
El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
A. Philip Randolph: Socialist on the March
A. Philip Randolph led Black workers and won defining civil rights victories over a career spanning 60 turbulent years.
Posted inTAP
Michigan’s Democratic Primary Could Hinge on Black Voters
Black voters in Michigan have significant voting power. But how have the Democratic candidates tapped into it?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Hubert Harrison, the Greatest Civil Rights Activist You’ve Never Heard Of
A Q&A with Brian Kwoba, author of Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Posted inPolitics
Ida B. Wells: Brave Woman
By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy.
Posted inPolitics
The CBC Challenge in Detroit
The Congressional Black Caucus has to decide between incumbency and additional representation in a House race between Rep. Shri Thanedar and Donavan McKinney.
Posted inPolitics
Frederick Douglass: Indefatigable American
If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.
Posted inPolitics
Zohran Mamdani’s New Kids on the Block
The politics of urban racial, class, and regime succession.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Trump Accounts Close the Racial Wealth Gap, or Worsen It?
The investment accounts for newborns have been lauded as an innovative wealth-building program. But they might exacerbate economic inequalities instead of remedying them.